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...bank built an elegant parlor for women, where they could "cut coupons and eat bonbons with equal relish." Off the parlor was a room with scissors, threaded needles, hairpins, violet water, lavender salts, scented soaps. This leisurely atmosphere paid off in accounts from prim matrons and black-bonneted dowagers. Women still flock to the bank's Victorian quarters with their paneling, candelabra and the fireplace whose log fire glows cheerily in winter...
...beautiful tale, The Babes in the Wood, O'Connor enters the shadow-world of painfully solemn, almost preternatural children who suffer from their elders' illicit affairs. O'Connor's bitterest stories are implicit denunciations of the sexual attitudes-or lack of them-of the prim, provincial and pious sort of Irishwoman. When a husband, desperately annoyed with his wife's unwifely reliance on the parish priest, is tempted to tell her "it was Father Ring she should have married," he refrains because he knows that "in time she'd be bound to confess...
...Cripps in his non-public character is warmly human. His family motto "Fronti Nulla Fides" (Trust Not to Outward Show) is appropriate; he scorns good fellowship in appealing to voters, preferring facts, figures and measured arguments, but British workers have always sensed the warmth of the man behind the prim bearing...
...raise money for the building. Started in 1804, the new Stoughton Hall was completed a year later, and officially named in 1806. It watched the years flow by gracefully, housing Edward Everett 1811, and Oliver Wendell Holmes 1829, until the night of December 15, 1870, when its prim, Puritan peace was disturbed by the explosion of a bomb under the floor of Room...
Lovesick Ladies. The Victorian novelists, Dr. Dunbar thinks, were pretty "realistic" after all: "Their prim and prissy heroines succumbed in droves to an epidemic of ladylike behavior. Disappointed in love or deprived by the malignity of fate of some adored object, they went into gentle declines and perished with immense propriety. ... A great many victims of tuberculosis today are doing the same. . . . They are those baffling cases for whose ailments no thoroughly sound explanation can be given in terms of their lungs alone...