Word: primness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schooling in the Desert. Coningham learned a good deal from the desert Luftwaffe. He learned more from his own experiments. He learned something about the relation of tactics to overall strategy from the brilliant strategic mind of prim, quiet Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder (now Eisenhower's Deputy Commander in Chief), top Allied air commander in the Mediterranean theater when the Germans were finally cleared out of Africa...
...Devonians found their cottages windowless, their churches damaged, their schools partly demolished by shellfire. The hedgerows were tattered and ragged, the lanes churned deep by tank tracks. Prim cottage gardens and the rich red fields were overgrown with weeds. Rabbits, multiplying by the thousands, played and fed with unchecked abandon, while the rooks wheeled and cawed overhead. Flies foraged in impudent battalions...
Flamenco v. Classical. When a Spaniard speaks of flamenco music, he means a kind of inspired strumming and wailing, rich in Moorish overtones, which bears about the same relation to the comparatively sedate folk music of Spain that New Orleans jive does to the prim fiddling of U.S. hillbillies. Few performers are equally good at both flamenco and "classical" music...
...Primer will prim...
...just about. But Princess O'Rourke, a pleasant enough comedy, offers one unusual shot-prim Olivia de Havilland in a bathtub scene. Miss de Havilland, a princess in search of a diplomatically and physically acceptable consort, happens on Transcontinental Pilot Robert Cummings. Miss de Havilland and Pilot Cummings exchange some rather rare wheezes about his ability to perpetuate the royal line and she decides he is just what she needs. Then the picture shifts to Washington for what is getting to be a patent Warner Bros, windup. It seems that President Roosevelt has avuncular feelings toward the princess...