Word: prim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ladies Aid Society and there the talk boiled up hottest. Gentle, white-haired Rector Livingston heard about it, of course, but he had been a pastor too long to pay much attention to the chatter of womenfolk. Besides, he had plenty of stanch supporters, and he loved his prim, 205-year-old Caroline Episcopal Church, with the mark of British bullets on its belfry. That was how it began, but it ended last week in court. Rector Livingston, 70, was suing Miss Smith, 71, for $50,000, charging slander. He had begun paying attention when he heard that...
Near Klagenfurt, Austria. Peter Sussbauer blared his horn at a prim black cat mincing across the road in front of his car. The cat swelled its tail, arched its back, crouched, hissed, sprang from ground to running board, to door, to steering wheel, to Peter Sussbauer. Badly scratched and bitten around the neck, Motorist Sussbauer was hospitalized...
...York, April 30-Max Bear, the Casanova of clout, returned to New York's from California today an announced in stentorian tones that on the night of June 14th he will, by virtue of knocking Prim Carnera loose from his mornings, become world heavyweight champion...
...element that creeps into Hollywoodiana) and he immediately falls for the babe at his side. Letty is the girl's name, and she lets him know that she is avoiding Legs, a New York gangster. Legs glares at the couple, and Withington (Ted Healy) is trying to persuade a prim woman to take a drink, and Healey's stooges, the Julians, are raising hell in the back of the bus, and character actors fill the remaining seats. The bus is stopped by troopers. At the stops the passengers are carefully scrutinized by policemen searching for Porter who had ingeniously disguised...
...evident, almost from the first. Moscow wins the debate, the Social Democrats lived up to their reputations, made the customary strategical mistakes; but--was the debate worth winning? The Kremlin has scored its point, but it has lost Vienna. Surely it would have been more worthwhile to discard this prim sectarian attitude and to have played ball with the Socialists, more worthwhile to cooperate, underground if necessary, with the Austrian government and to bring all possible pressure for direct, speedy action to bear upon the Central Committee, rather than smugly to tell the defeated Viennese, "We told...