Word: prim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worthy of admission. He fails; she dances away and lets him fall, and a jury of humans, sitting outside the gates, exits in disgust at the rejection of its fair-haired boy. Char should have given his jury further development. It seems to represent the repressed sensuality of prim, proper humans, yet other intepretations are equally plausible...
Anna Maria Caglio is an aristocrat, the kind of girl whom Via Véneto doormen automatically salute. Daughter of a well-to-do Milan attorney, she was educated in prim Swiss schools, went to Rome when she was 20, hoping to break into the theater or the movies. She had little success, but she became a part of the highest-living, fastest-traveling Roman set. The most dashing of them all was the Marchese Ugo Montagna. Soon Anna Maria was his acknowledged mistress, accepting an $800-a-month allowance and living with him openly. But last summer Ugo threw...
...Postmaster General, he accepted Hollywood's offer to let him wipe clean the sin-filled screen (at $100,000 a year), forestalled a widespread public demand for state censorship. No czar, wily Will Hays became U.S. filmdom's No. 1 booster (and whipping boy), helped draw up prim production and advertising codes, closely regulated moviemaking from story idea to exhibition. After 23 years, he abdicated in 1945, turned the Hays Office over to Eric Johnston, went home to Indiana to practice...
With a short fanfare from the pit, the show got under way. A prim looking kickline pranced around the stage, fully clothed, as the Golden Voiced male singer implored the audience to "Have fun, you sonofagun, have fun!" Two of the soldiers in the balcony craned forward, eyeing the chorus. They got up to leave...
That afternoon, after a brief rest and luncheon preceded by a prim round of sherry, Ike and Mamie emerged from the forbidding mansion to plant two ceremonial maple trees on the frozen lawn. That night, at a glittering, full-dress state dinner, the President was toasted and in turn proposed the toast to the Queen. The President wore the British Order of Merit, awarded him by the late King George...