Word: prim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...east, the Federal Civil Defense Administration had built a simulated suburb: two typical frame houses, looking prim and white among the yucca trees. Nearby a typical signpost read Elm & Main. Typical U.S. cars were spotted in the imaginary parking places of the imaginary town...
...prim, convent-educated London typist, Pierre-Joël Delaitre was all that a storybook French nobleman should be: tall, educated, tastefully dressed, charming, wealthy. To those who knew him better, he was also mean, hot-tempered, pampered, and a wastrel. Reared in luxury at the 18th century Château de Mainténiac, Pierre was the scourge of the neighborhood-borrowing the tenants' farm horses to race across country, frightening the villagers of nearby Préchâtel by roaring through their marketplace in his racing car. He frittered away a fortune and tried to recoup...
...Britain's tabloid warfare, Lord Kemsley's prim Daily Graphic (circ. 753,537) is no match for the racy, zestful Daily Mirror (circ. 4,432,700), largest daily newspaper in the world. While the Graphic carefully minds its manners, the Mirror minds its readers with eye-catching cheesecake and lurid tabloid writing. Fleet Streeters even recall that the Graphic once cropped a picture to show only the head of a bull because Lady Kemsley protested that the entire photo would offend Graphic readers...
Even as a teenager, George Sponsler of North Baltimore (pop. 2,771), Ohio was a prim, strait-laced little fellow. Like his older brother Orville, he stood 5 ft. 5, weighed just 120 Ibs. and had the family habit of sitting up straight on the edge of chairs. Both boys considered it a privilege and an honor to work for North Baltimore's little First National Bank. George swept out the lobby and polished the cuspidors every afternoon when he was in high school, and became a clerk as soon as he graduated...
...year-old man with a prim, severe face flew into Cairo last week, looking like an old-fashioned country doctor making his calls. Carrying his little black briefcase and typewriter, and accompanied by his young-looking (44), smiling wife, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht has been making the rounds of world trouble spots, prescribing oldfashioned, bitter medicine for economic ills...