Word: prude
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...elegant, ivory-tipped, ebony cane, and "put his trousers carefully under the mattress so that the next morning he could rejoice in a faultless crease." He had a strange attraction for women, who forever gave him encouraging glances or even sent inviting notes, but he was an unbending prude. One night he dragged the embarrassed Kubizek off to inspect Vienna's red-light district, and later lectured for hours on the evils of prostitution. Not much better than prostitution, in his opinion, was the cosmopolitanism of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Even then, he ranted about the "Reich...
...Harvey as "one of the greatest living Americans today" and one who has long been in the "forefront of the fight on Communism." Harvey attributed TV's woes to the fact that most performers are "steeped in the bawdy night life" of Manhattan. He insisted he was no prude but that things are so bad he has had to turn off one program (unnamed) "rather than blush in front of my own wife...
Wouk himself spent four years in the Navy, part of the time as executive officer of the destroyer-minesweeper Southard. His aboard-ship scenes have a sharp, detailed reality that few of the army novelists have been able to give to their battlefield passages. No prude, he manages to achieve realism without obscenity, is perhaps the first World War II novelist in the U.S. with enough maturity to realize that four-letter words are "good-humored billingsgate . . . and not significant." That Author Wouk has absolute control of the Caine's little world will be granted by anyone...
...first two novels displayed some freshness and even considerable wit, which seems out of character for a prude, and were extremely popular; her later works were bogged down in convoluted style and were also popular. She spent five long dull years at court as Keeper of the Queen's Robes...
Among the competing teams "are Brooklyn, Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Denison, Georgetown, George Washington, McGill, New York University, Princeton, Prude, Rutgers, Suffolk, Wesleyan, and Yale. The Universities of North Carolina, Notre Dame, Pennsylvania, and Vermont, MIT, and the United States Military Academy will also send teams...