Word: prim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador was about to sail for a furlough in the U. S. Cambridge University had just made him an honorary Doctor of Laws and in the distinguished audience sat prim John Galsworthy, elfin Sir James Matthew Barrie, beefy Lords Beauchamp and Bridgeman, and His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, "Uncle Arthur" Henderson? honorary degree...
...When the prim Dutch maid opens the door and sees that a friend of the family is calling she returns the cent to the welcome guest. But if she finds on the doorstep a peddler, huckster, bill collector or offensive person of any sort she merely slams the portal and the cent is velvet...
...most phenomenally successful of any magazine issued before the Civil war was the prim Godey's Lady's Book. On many a U. S. attic shelf, dust-covered copies still remain. Recently a passing decorating fancy has gutted them of their faded fashion plates, which are used to lend a touch of quaintness to boudoir walls, breakfast trays and lampshades...
...nearly 50 years, Charles Phelps Taft of Cincinnati left his white Georgian house in prim Pike Street each morning and made his way to his newspaper office, the Times-Star. Neat, small, white-bearded, he was secure in the knowledge that his was one of the Great U. S. Families, for if Lowells and Cabots dominate Boston, it may be said in Cincinnati that Tafts speak only to Longworths. Half-brother of the 27th President of the U. S.. a philanthropist and pillar of right in his community, Publisher Taft dedicated his paper to conservative, rock-ribbed Republicanism...