Word: prim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England's castle-flecked County Durham, U.S. Ambassador to Britain Winthrop W. Aldrich, cheered on by an elite audience of British and American brass, officially opened newly restored Washington Old Hall, 800-year-old home of the ancestors of George Washington. He was suddenly confronted by a prim, grey-haired gatecrasher. The uninvited guest: Gary Lady Schuster, 88, widow of a titled physics professor. Her ticket of admission: a lineage chart showing her direct descent from John Washington, the first President's great-grandfather, who sailed to America in 1657. Offering a glad hand, Ambassador Aldrich glowed...
...Goodie was distracted with grief. After months of brooding in a Sacramento hotel room, he finally went about once more and looked up an old acquaintance, Virginia Carlson, the pretty widow of a World War II bombardier, and a poetess of modest talents (TIME, May 16). Goodie's prim idea of a big date with Virginia was to take her to the Ontra Cafeteria on Wilshire Boulevard and then to the movies. Eventually, the Knight daughters prodded Goodie into taking Virginia on more romantic evenings, and in time, says Virginia, "he finally took a look...
Many of Leopoldville's 20,000 Belgians were not prepared in advance to be much impressed by their young king. "That infant," snapped one sun-helmeted businessman as he watched Baudouin's arrival in a Sabena DC-6 airliner. The colonists had seen too many prim, unsmiling photographs of the bespectacled King, watchfully flanked by his father, ex-King Leopold, and his purposeful stepmother. But a change seemed to have come over shy King Baudouin the moment he left Brussels. He became relaxed, friendly and informal-a man on his own. On the plane, he insisted on getting...
Champagne Complex (by Leslie Stevens) concerns a young girl (Polly Bergen) who, after becoming engaged to a prim young tycoon (John Dall), constantly gets high on champagne and then begins peeling off her clothes. Her worried beau calls in his psychoanalyst bachelor uncle (Donald Cook). Treatments reveal that the girl wants the analyst himself as Cupid to her psyche. Since, in romantic comedies of the '50s, young girls may marry men in their 40s, all is well. Champagne Complex is that very tough undertaking-a play with but three characters and one situation. Despite amusing lines, funny moments...
...should make him attractive. Shaw's version is genuinely hearty and morally scrubbed, perhaps more a man of instinct than thought, but his are good, deep instincts. Instead, Fdgerton is posing and sniveling. In a role which demands naturalness above all, he is always artificial, or worse, sanctimonious and prim...