Word: prim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nubile daughter of a polite demimondaine, gets mixed in with jobless Jack Galbraith, whose time is spent begging for a pension and hoping to win public prize competitions, and his wife Doreen, who supports them by being decorative in the lobbies of small hotels. Successful Oliver Galbraith and his prim wife Cathie are the foil of respectability. They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes off with a Latin-American. Jack makes a hash of his suicide, thereafter "awakening." With devoted Jill by his side he starts back up the hill...
...might well be stolen from Fannie Hurst. She is not so vivid as his famed "Call To Arms" figure which everyone remembers as the woman with her feet planted flat, her arms upraised, mouth wide in battle call to France. Mr. Davidson, born and reared in Paris, has breathed prim New England into his model...
...dispensed the type of advice that people gobbled up. She became an oracle - thousands of letters swarmed upon her. She began syndicating her "stuff"-success smiled. She wrote books-more smiles and happy hearts. In New Orleans they admire this grey-haired, gracious "little lady." She might have been prim, had she not been a woman of the world...
Reminded that occasional reviewers have found parts of her book "almost lascivious," she retorted: "Mv characters and the tales of them must have been true to their period else how should they have been accepted? I dare say there were many prim and proper people living in the 18th century, but every memoir of the time is abundant proof of the licentiousness which was rife in the beau monde. Naturally I did not choose a conventional bread-and-butter miss as my heroine...
...some time the women voters remained ladies, tripping prim and proper to and from the balloting. But the spirit of the thing came upon them and a score reverted to the fishwife, yanking hair, screeching epithets, tearing skirts and blouses in a wrangle on the turf. Spectators guffawed, applauded...