Word: prim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Embassy in Vichy last week sent French authorities a prim reminder: that under international agreement French stations are allocated the initial call letter "F," U.S. stations "W" and "K." The occasion of the reminder was the discovery by FCC that a pseudo-American station, WFAC, picked up occasionally in the U.S., is actually broadcasting its Axis propaganda from somewhere in Unoccupied France...
...South America and the Far East, and had never before been seen in the U.S. Painted with almost microscopic care, their colors as mellow and clear as the tone of an old violin, these pictures resembled the work of modern "primitive" artists (TIME, Feb. 9) only in the prim simplicity and occasional unconscious humor of their subject matter...
...week, in his modest Queen Victoria Road bungalow, the tall, prim-mouthed, high-domed intellectual worked and conferred. He accepted no social engagements. Rising shortly after 7, he donned an ill-fitting suit and high stiff collar, breakfasted lightly at 8, then spent several hours conferring with his staff, writing dispatches, seeing the press. Except for a 25-minute break for lunch, he interviewed Indian leaders from midmorning until 8 p.m. He met them on the porch, led them through the large-pillared hall to his study, offered them cigarets and then got down to business. After dinner and more...
...charged Amsterdam's solid burghers, soldiers and surgeons high prices for his solemn, cloudy canvases, married a woman of wealth, spent money like a drunken lord on paintings, prints, armor, tapestries and pearls. Some of the ruff-necked portraits Painter Rembrandt did during this early period were as prim and vapid as their complacent cheese-eating subjects. But on the side he prowled Amsterdam's ancient docksides and ghetto streets, drawing, painting and incessantly limning the gnarled faces and baggy clothes of rabbis, sailors and Portuguese refugees...
...coats and tunics. They have no sweaters or only light ones and standard, unlined German service boots. Often they have no gloves. Sometimes they wear women's skirts or little pink and white striped jumpers or wool panties drawn over their trousers. All that is bad for the prim Prussian morale. The first thing that many Muscovites do in the morning is to rush to the thermometer and joyously call to their families: 'Twenty below; good for the Germans...