Word: prude
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other times he said I had nothing but looks to recommend me. He said I took no interest in his interests. He said also that I insisted on thrusting myself into all of them. He said I was spiritless, or temperamental; had no moral sense or was a prude. He said he wanted to marry the woman he really loved; and, that once rid of me, he would not marry anyone else...
Women Patients. In foyers, away from the mass meetings, the men discussed what to do with prudish or amorous women patients. The best conduct, by general approval, is to treat the woman impersonally, as if she were a mere head of beef. Let the prude bring in a companion; let the companion sit guard in an uncomfortable iron chair. Many women become amorous as they recline in the dentist's chair. The prudent dentist hurts such patients enough to make them forget their involuntary eroticism. All agreed that the practitioner who coos to female clients is a fool...
...last few years most of the nations from Lapland to Antartica have taken their fling at this country; vocabularies have been thumbed over and over for new phrases of vituperation; Uncle Sam is a spendthrift, a miser, a coward, a bully, a fat capitalist, a lean prude. But that he should be pictured as a seductive satyr piping innocent nymphs down the primrose path is hard to believe. Now, however, Senora Doloras Longoria of Mexico has returned to the land of bandits and bull-fights, after a sojourn in "New York, Chicago, and other American cities, where she has made...
...Author. Writing in the current Nation, Author Sinclair describes himself: "Behold me - the prize prude of the radical movement; a man who can say that he has never told a smutty story in his life and who was once described by his former marital partner,* through the papers of the civilized world, as 'an essential monogamist' - a very old-fogyish thing...
...PRUDE Signifies a women who at heart is no enemy to gallantry, but loves it without noise. Some women hoist the standard of a mysterious severity, and pass one half of their lives in concealing the other half...