Word: prim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...told Roscoe Arbuckle, the now deposed cinema clown, that he needed a pair of shoes. Arbuckle tossed him a pair of his own enormous brogues. "There you are, man," he said. "Perfect fit!" Chaplin put them on, cocked his battered derby over his ear, twisted the ends of his prim mustache. His face was very sad. He attempted a jaunty walk which became, inevitably, a heart-breaking waddle. He put his hand on the seat of his trousers, spun on his heel. Arbuckle told him that he was almost funny. Such was the research that led him to "create...
Harvard men will never have done deploring the lack of a planning board at the time Matthews and Weld Halls, and more recently Widener Library, were introduced like grotesque, exotic plants in a prim and hardy New England garden. Such a board has since come into being, and has already justified itself in the Freshman Halls and the new Yard buildings now under construction...
...England, however, home of rock-bound tradition, the thing has been done, and no less a personage than H. M. Queen Mary, royally prim and sensitive, has vigourously acclaimed the innovation. The prizefight opera was given a private performance last week before representatives of the Court and critics. Enthusiasm was unbounded. Experts marvelled at the way in which the composer handled his difficult subject...
...hides the "fierce revolutionary spirit that burns deep down in her soul"; Mme. Kollontai, attractive wife of a handsome sailor, a fervent but impractical feminist, but with an intelligence that has won her the place of Soviet Ambassador; Lenin's sister "taller than he," with angular features and the "prim air of a typical 'schoolmarm' "; Mme. Muralov, wife of War Lord Trotzky's right-hand...
...ordinary bookcase, the in habitants thereof may be subjected to inconceivable indignities. Imagine the reaction of a prim and high-minded Victorian romance forced to rub Covers with Jurgen. What would be the feelings of Speare and Fitz gerald, twin apostles of gin and kisses, separated by the staid blue covers of Mr. Gundelfinger's uproarious Ten Years at Yale...