Word: prude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angel; Of Time and the River) arrived in Manhattan after four months abroad. Said he to newshawks: "There's one swell thing about Americans?as a race we are not snobs. . . . For one week I had a service flat in London with an English butler that was such a prude he would make Ruggles of Red Gap look like a blacksmith. . . . One night I decided to find out just what kind of a fellow he was under his servant's mask. I gave him so many whiskeys and sodas that I got cockeyed drinking with him. He wouldn...
...stenographer at the State Capitol sued Governor Russell for seduction and ex-Governor Bilbo was called as a witness. Bilbo is no prude, but he did not want to be drawn into a friend's girl trouble. He hid out in a backwoods farm until Governor Russell was acquitted...
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...curbstone she explained: "I don't wear shoes because they are outrageous and barbaric. I wear shorts because I'm free and on my own now. . . . That waiter was just a prude...
...prude, Mr. Traylor modified his strictures to the extent of saying that a man who trades in $10,000 sums should be permitted to continue such crap-shooting de luxe. But "scrubwomen, day laborers, small home owners, wives and youths" must be barred by law from market speculation...