Word: prim
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...than the productions of our periodical press. Nothing is staler than yesterday's newspaper, -- if you have today's; and even in so staid and decorous an organization as the book club of any highly respectable New England town, the dignified Reviews and seemly humourous publications that make their prim march from house to house excite in most members of the club, would they own the truth, but very languid interest when at the earliest they arrive at least six weeks after the time of their first bow to the world. True, the greater part of the cargoes of most...