Word: prudishness
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Their journal strayed far from the path they blazed, got lost more than once in the plush-horse latitudes of high society. But later editors kept up their fight for women's rights, gumptiously ran Chabas' September Morn (1912) in protest against the prudish post-Victorian ban on nudes. To instruct the well-to-do in the things it was well to do, they helped make skiing, motoring and flying socially acceptable...
...Eliot and Ezra Pound, then by the Marxists, winds up ballyhooing bellywash on national hookups. There is the Purity League's investigation of the Booklover when its personal columns sprout a rash of "advertisements by 'gentlemen of robust constitution' in search of 'non-prudish ladies responsive to the new dance rhythms...
...father began to lose his wits, finally cut his throat with a razor. Her grandfather was popped into a sanatorium for alcoholics; her uncle still languished in the state penitentiary. The relatives who raised Susan were "a whole gibbering pack of unknowns, all drunken, all semi-criminal, all diseased." Prudish Susan was so overcome by the "beautiful luxury of grief" in telling this hideous tale that she burst into tears. Slick only poured more molasses on his flapjacks. But, in the middle of the night, he suddenly turned to Susan and said: "I must tell you something. All my life...
Died. Margaret W. Deland, 87, popular novelist of the '90s (John Ward, Preacher; Old Chester Tales); in Boston. A serene, soft-spoken gentlewoman, whose fictional probing into social problems shocked her generation, she had a stock comeback which usually silenced prudish critics: "Does it make wickedness attractive? If so, it is an immoral book...
...ribald 1601-itself a symptom of inhibition-needed neither his staid friend William Dean Howells nor his gentle wife Olivia to wash out his mouth with soap. Mark Twain, says DeVoto, "was almost lustfully hypersensitive to sex in print; he was, in fact, as a writer, rather more prudish than Howells." This fact is subtly related to his limitations as a writer. He had a simple genius for making all males, of any age, come to life, even in a few lines. Middle-aged women, like Tom's Aunt Polly, are fully and tenderly vivid. But Mark Twain...