Word: primness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dried Milk Paid Better. Blackwood has been fascinated by what he calls "strange powers" since boyhood. The son of Sir Arthur Blackwood, K.C.B., and Sydney, Duchess of Manchester, he was sent to Canada about 1890 to make his living as a farmer. Apparently his prim Victorian parents had little hope for a son who, at 20, read the Bhagavad Gita and claimed to be a Buddhist. He settled near Toronto and bought into a dairy partnership, but the enterprise soon failed. For the next nine or ten years he drifted around Canada and the U.S., losing what little money...
...nose and rose to the attack. "It is quite clear that the Government have no plans of their own," he snorted. "Is this business or politics? This statement wears the aspect of a . . . thoroughly disreputable performance. . . . This whole affair is nothing but a political ramp!"* When harassed Prim& Minister Attlee refused to promise full debate before nationalization steps were taken, a Tory backbencher flung an excited "Hitler !" across the House at him. In one hour of hectic debate, Winston Churchill was on his feet 25 times, plainly relishing every minute of it. He had a good case, and worried Laborites...
...close subordinates and the discomfiture of his Episcopalian antagonists. Bishop Manning has almost always been right. That rigid position has not endeared him to his opponents-or to the public; his vigilant guardianship of orthodoxy has often made New York's Bishop look something of a prim curmudgeon...
Last week Sheeler's first exhibition in five years opened in a Manhattan gallery. Sheeler, a knife-thin, steel-grey, bespectacled craftsman, works slowly to achieve his carefully balanced arrangements of reality, so it was not a big show-but each picture had a prim perfection. Most visitors acknowledged Sheeler's peculiar mastery, but were left a little cold...
...year when mayhem, murder, dipsomania, drug addiction, perversion and incest are much commoner in U.S. novels than in U.S. life, Ilka (In Bed We Cry) Chase has contributed a novel whose muted prurience is almost prim. The story concerns the adventures of two U.S. Quakeresses* named Bean. They are natives of Lanesboro, Pa., where the Widow Bean's father keeps a general store. There, after a week of whirlwind courtship, an itinerant spaghetti salesman named Rechetti marries the widow and whisks her and her daughter, Tilli, off to Italy. He has neglected to tell his U.S. wife that...