Word: prim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What story there is to this slim, slight comedy concerns an impoverished French gentleman, a refugee from the Revolution, named Paul (Pierre Fresnay). Turning adventurer, he picks up a virginal chanteuse, takes her across the Channel to Brighton. It is 1811; Brummell struts at Bath; in & out of prim Adam houses parades the world of fashion; Guardsmen wear tight breeches; George IV is Regent. Paul's plan is to marry off his Melanie (small, saucy Yvonne Printemps) to a highborn tripper, thereby assuring himself a pension. The Regent himself asks Melanie to a souper à deux. The choleric Earl...
Tall, slender, patrician-looking President Bryan, 63, can match his college's ancient traditions, its new vigor. At one of the weekly gatherings in Richmond of his old, proud family, a guest once asked a prim maiden Stewart if she were descended from Scotland's royal family. "On the contrary," replied she, "the Kings of Scotland are descended from...
...last week was young Samuel Jr. His arm still black-banded for the death of his wife last February, he hovered solicitously over his father, grinned at the Press, was quieter in court. Occasionally he stole a glance at the second row of the spectators' benches. There, straight and prim as a Quaker, sat his pretty mother. Last July she had followed her husband back from their European exile, travelling tourist class on the Majestic, announcing that she had come to stand by him. In Chicago she had abashed vociferous newshawks by gravely quoting : "Sweet are the uses of adversity...
Long on intellect is Bryn Mawr. Youngest and smallest of the sister colleges, it is the only one which grants the Ph.D. degree, is proud of a faculty capable of such advanced instruction. Twelve miles out on Philadelphia's socialite Main Line, Bryn Mawr's prim, cloister-like campus last week lay nearly deserted. This year's session of its famed Summer School for Women Workers in Industry ended last July, and the college was not to open until Oct. 1. Then officials expected about the usual number of students-300-odd undergraduates, 100-odd postgraduates...
...typing, and kept her feet from straying. Her peers thought her strangely proud, for "common things like holding hands with strange young men at the cinema were not for her." She struck up a culturally useful friendship with a fellow-boarder, a crippled youth who was no less prim of speech than she, but she guarded her virginal beauty for a vague another. More by good luck than good management she escaped the snares laid by a wily woman-hunter and the cruder advances of a loathsome dope-peddler. Fittingly established at last as private secretary to a rich lady...