Word: primness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the East Indian realm of plump and prim Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands came challenging news that rubber production there has topped 93,000 tons for 1927*, an increase of almost 400% in five years...
Sharp Shooters. Those film-followers who have seen, in prim Cinemactress Lois Moran, a small blonde embodiment of all that a good girl should be, may well be surprised now to see her impersonating, with much undue undulation, a French girl who dances in a Moroccan port-town public house. Behind her, one catches a glimpse of the entire U. S. Navy, but especially of one roustabout bluejacket to whom Actor George O'Brien has given his first name and a good characterization. A mere word, spoken in jest by this gay and murderous tar, persuades the dancing girl...
...firm-minded chairman was wanted for the Federal Radio Commission. Through Secretary Hoover, President Coolidge again urged the post on his friend, Carmi Alderman Thompson of Cleveland. Col. Thompson declined. The President had to think of other prim-minded...
...Snip!" went shears in the hands of John Mays, White House valet, "snip, snip, snip!" The President was having his hair cut. Not unduly selfconscious, the President had the operation performed on the State Lodge porch while, despatches reported, "many tourists stopped to gaze at the sight." ¶ Prudence Prim, pet white collie of Mrs. Coolidge, died at Fort Meade, S. Dak. Cause: Distemper with complications. ¶Inasmuch as President Coolidge usually does not attend meetings at which a Democrat is the principal speaker, his ears must last week have heard strange sounds and subversive doctrine. For, attending a farmers...
...come to the point of severing relations with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Premier Stanley Baldwin rose from where he sat between Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill. Ostensibly they were calm, Sir Austen sitting habitually erect and glacial, almost prim; and Mr. Churchill slumped in thought. Yet the extreme nervousness of all three was manifest a little later, when easy-going Mr. Baldwin seemed about to blunder into a damaging admission. Then and there, the Premier was literally yanked down by the coattails. He subsided between the other two Fates until...