Word: prude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Agnes George de Mille, 34, smart choreographer; and U.S. Army Air Forces Lieut. Walter Prude, 33; each for the first time; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Daughter of Hollywoodsman William de Mille (Cecil's brother), she devised the dances for Broadway's current musical smash, Oklahoma...
...prude, the parson wisely reinterprets the Methodist Discipline to fit changing times. Discovering that his son has been to a movie (forbidden), he takes him to another, to point out what there is in the picture that is bad for him to see. The picture (a 24-year-old William S. Hart film, The Silent Man) so thoroughly wows the pastor that he uses the movie as a text for his Sunday sermon...
...Petitioner Kay, the session marked her first appearance in a courtroom. Her husband, interviewed, said proudly: "She's no prude. She listens to a nice joke. She don't tell them, but she listens to them." With the philosopher's works under his arm, Justice McGeehan left court. In a blistering 17-page decision he held...
Nancy Langhorne Viscountess Astor is no prude but when onetime War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha (see p. 27) recently introduced the practice of paying allowances to soldiers' mistresses, she objected violently. Her objection was overruled. Last week she rounded up a delegation to raise the matter again-before new War Secretary Oliver Stanley. Lady Astor objected that the practice was both bad morals and bad business. "I know a case," she said, "in which a woman is receiving dependent allowances from three men and is now living with a fourth...