Word: prim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the years Stoughton housed such famous and dignified men as Edward Everett 1811, and Oliver Wendell Holmes 1829, but one night in December, 1870, its prim, Puritan Peace was shattered, when a bomb exploded under Room 17, damaging the entire north wing. The culprit was never caught...
...shore, the young tar had a rather quieter time. He once went hard-alee for a pretty little Portuguese, and had to do some tricky navigation to get out of port; but in general, says the prim old sea dog, "I always kept a straight course and gave them a wide berth, as I had no use for painted-faced daisies...
Hurricane Time Prim & proper Fredericton never fails to loosen its stays a bit for a gay old time during the annual visit of New Brunswick's most illustrious native son, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, 72 this week. The Beaver, Britain's No. 1 newspaper lord, likes it that way. He seldom comes home, moreover, without bearing gifts for his pet philanthropy, the University of New Brunswick (total so far: $1,500,000), where he himself was once a brilliant, tippling, debt-ridden, poker-playing law student...
Minor characters were as sharply etched: a woebegone, moonfaced Puerto Rican accepting his impending arrest for perjury with a resigned shrug; an ex-Navy lieutenant commander, nervously eager to please, repeatedly and irrelevantly reminding the committee that he had been wounded in the South Pacific; a prim Fire Department receptionist who kept painstakingly correcting his own grammar...
...Ireland's prim Censorship of Publications Board slapped a ban of six months to a year on 14 U.S. magazines. Sample titles: Nifty, All True Fact Crime Cases, Special Detective. Esquire, banned nine months ago for being "indecent and obscene," was suspended indefinitely...