Word: prude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shocked correspondent of The Christian Century reported last week an interview on Manila's cinema with President Antonio C. Torres of the Manila municipal board (son of a supreme court justice of the Spanish regime). No prude but by hobby a criminologist, President Torres had declared: "70% of the present day crimes and immorality have been provoked ... by imported films. I particularly resent the influence which the motion pictures are having on the thousands of college men and women in this educational center. Our students, without knowing that the pictures which the movies give of American college life...
...sofa reading. . . . On inauguration day he took to the Senate Treasure Island - to read, he said, in case his father's address bored him"; 4) "Helen Taft [Mrs. Frederick J. Manning, dean of Bryn Mawr] is a nice girl and very intelligent without being a prude"; 5) "When the music began the President began to waltz around the room by himself. . . . Uncle Joe [Cannon], though he knew no waltz steps, simply capered around in a sort of ragtime shuffle"; 6) the first cigaret smoked by a U. S. woman (Mrs. Nicholas Longworth) at the White House...
French priests were ordered last week by Franç Cardinal Verdier, new Archbishop of Paris, to begin an "extensive survey" of the spread of the "cocktail evil" in their parishes. Neither a snooper nor a prude, His Eminence thus showed that he is in harmony with the great body of French public opinion which holds...