Word: prim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before he and his companions swung aboard a boat train in London last week, prim-faced, bespectacled Hugh Ruttledge said to newshawks: "I believe we'll make it this time." He added thoughtfully, "With any reasonable weather...
Explanation: an unrevealed number of copies of the Book Review had been printed when Someone Higher Up saw what sample of Printer Thomas' work had been chosen to illustrate the review of his biography; what quotation Critic Titterton, who is literary adviser for prim National Broadcasting Co., had picked to reveal Napoleon's character. Choosing swiftly between typography and taste, the Higher Up ordered the presses stopped at once. All copies of the Book Review already printed were destroyed. Since it was too late for costly re-plating, printers were ordered to scratch out the offending line...
...less minute study. Apparently with careful design, Byron began spreading stories about himself when his fortunes were highest. He even confided in scatter-brained Lady Caroline, after she had become his virulent enemy. Prevented from publicly proclaiming his love for his sister, he married, choosing as his wife a prim, exact intellectual whom he did not love and whose highbrow affectations amused him and his friends. He took his bride to his sister's home, tormenting her with crazy half-disclosures, while his sister avoided him, incredible rumors spread, and the whole household trembled on the verge of insanity...
...fascination the Press watched the Enigma Woman's fixed, prim smile as she arrived by plane in Chicago, stubbornly stuck to her story of innocence, finally declared, "Oh well, I might as well get it over with. Sure, I killed him. . . . Blanche didn't pay me a cent of the $500. ... I tried to get Harry Jung to help me cut up Ervin but he got sick at the sight of the blood. He was sitting in an automobile outside, scared half to death...
...Smith's silly, prim smile made her Chicago's Mona Lisa. Headline: WHAT OF MRS. SMITH'S STRANGE SMILE? with pictures. "Am I," she asked newshawks, "still front page...