Word: prim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come what may, Dorothy must have lessons. Dorothy got them at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, where she studied classical music for four years. The Conservatory's high-brow teachers tried, but they never could break Dorothy of her habit of making horrible faces while she played. Their prim five-finger exercises never could curb her habit of cutting loose in shoulder-shaking, canebrake improvisations (Dorothy finally wore out one piano). The Conservatory was never able to keep her percussive feet still either...
...prim New Englander named Wooley (Fredric March) ran afoul of a witch (Veronica Lake) in a hayloft and had her and her supernatural father (Cecil Kellaway) burned alive and buried, for safekeeping, under the roots of an oak. The doomed witch cursed him and his male issue with disaster in love. The curse holds better & better in 1770, 1861, and 1904 (Fredric March, Fredric March and Fredric March). It looks even more propitious when, on a stormy night in 1942, lightning rives the oak and sets father and daughter at liberty once more, as a talkative pair of fumes...
...Prim and meticulous, 77-year-old Bridgman stumps up & down his classroom, glowering affably at any student who wastes drawing paper or sits a few inches out of line from the other students. Occasionally he stops to drop a sardonic remark or to redraw, in heavy accurate lines, an improperly pitched shoulder or a badly proportioned leg. Something of a Puritan, Bridgman has only recently permitted nude models in mixed classes of men & women. He treats the human body as solemnly and abstractly as an engineering problem. "Anatomically," he says, "there's not much difference between...
...liquor production will stop completely on or before Nov. 1. This jolting news hit front pages all over the country last week when prim, precise WPB Alcohol Expert Matthew MacNamara revealed that U.S. distillers would be 100% converted to war alcohol within two months. The U.S. needs alcohol for its huge synthetic-rubber program, its booming smokeless powder plants, its busy plastics and chemical factories...
Though his own tastes in architecture are conservative (about once a year he designs and builds a prim little conventional house just for the fun of it), Kahn considers the leaders in U.S. architecture to be Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Cret and Eliel Saarinen. About his own work as architect laureate to U.S. industry, he is modestly matter-of-fact. Says he: "Architecture is 90% business...