Word: prude
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...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...
...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...