Wordsworth, incidentally, comes across as an utter prig as Frances Wilson portrays him.
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Gilbert's a prig who few critics have ever managed to defend, and he's violent.
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If becoming Axe requires a little insider trading, maybe you're a prig to object.
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He's a prig and I wish he had lost his primary to that tattooed guy who likes me.
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He arrived as a scolding prig, criticizing Mr. Odenkirk's Jimmy even as he relied on him for care.
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Victoria calls him a prig for it; I'd use stronger language for being so condescending to the queen of England.
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Not to be a prig or a scold, but insofar as the details are autobiographical, maybe somebody should quit drinking.
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Holly is the conscience of the movie, and the wisest soul in sight, yet she's neither a prig nor a smart-ass.
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In a podcast interview in 2015, he recalled having been variously denounced as a Communist radical and as a boring, conservative Catholic prig.
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As drawn with Dickensian relish by Bertie Carvel, this Murdoch is indeed a man of wealth and taste, with a surprising touch of the prig.
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Better late than never, but it still took 18 years and a conceited prig in the White House to reverse the natsec consensus against peace.
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Jesus' people are collectively known as the Hilltop Colony, a relatively feeble bunch led by a pompous prig in a pretty old house on a hill.
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In "Measure for Measure" at the Almeida Theatre, also in 2010, Mr Kinnear's Angelo—sometimes a monstrous prig—was a man tragically outmatched by his own feelings.
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Gorgeous George was, in short, the very negation of the American male athlete; the persona he originated was equal parts drag queen, aristocratic prig, and lowdown cheat.
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But the benevolent smile lurking under the pre-World War I mustache is deceiving: The man is a sanctimonious prig who siphons all the fun out of life.
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"As drawn with Dickensian relish by Bertie Carvel, this Murdoch is indeed a man of wealth and taste, with a surprising touch of the prig," Mr. Brantley wrote.
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"For Leon, women fell on a spectrum ranging from Humorless Prig to Game Girl, based on how much of his sexual banter, innuendo, and advances she would put up with," writes Cottle.
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Those taking part in the project get free tickets to the Fencing Grand Prig and to the World Championships in the Arena Carioca 3 venue in late April, an official Olympic test event.
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Louis Viardot emerges as a quiet hero, Pauline Viardot as a ruthless but likeable pragmatist and Turgenev as an insufferable prig whom posterity (and perhaps Louis) could forgive only because of his excellent, observant prose.
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Ms. Duffy is remarkable in her ability to lend warmth and sympathy to Rachel, who might easily have been a cardboard prig, and Lacretta brings an electric charge to Lou from the moment we meet her.
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A raging alcoholic, Sam spends the first two-thirds of the book vomiting into her wastebasket, getting beaten up by her abusive prig of a boyfriend and seeking comfort via cheap sex with a narcissistic barfly.
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Kessel is also more on the Creature's side of things than on that of his creator — Frankenstein tends to come off as a self-absorbed prig — but Kessel doesn't fall into the trap of making the Creature so sympathetic as to become unthreatening.
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Flanked by a smarmy sycophant (how much I miss Prig David Spade!), Seedling doggedly pursues the Conehead family in a parody of The Fugitive, hunting Beldar not because he's simply an extraterrestrial, but because he's an extraterrestrial who dared to illegally work in the United States.
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Small dramas acquire the status of rumbling storms: the fate of the young couple's romance; the thwarted lesbian desire of a society prig for Tim's sister, a renowned poet; the need of Sara's brother and sister to break away from the reproachful perfection that suffocates them.
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I always find it impossible to believe that there's really only one answer to every spot, even when I'm finished (in this one, I'd argue that you could have PRIX/TWIX as well as PRIG/TWIG, since the candy bar's been in the regular puzzle before).
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But in Henry Carr, a soldier and a dandy and a lover and a prig, who moves through the play sometimes in his sprightly 20s and sometimes in his fuddled 60s, Mr. Hollander has one of the great roles and one of the great monologues, a five-page tongue-twirler that begins the play.
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It's a battle of pig versus prig at Axe Cap, as the gleefully macho and amoral Dollar Bill Stearn clashes with the company's compliance officer, Ari Spyros — Chuck Rhoades's one-time frenemy at the Securities and Exchange Commission, now working for the full-on enemy — over the kind of insider trading he used to be able to get away with as a matter of course.
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Stephen Vizinczey, 'Pornography and the contemporary prig', The Times, 4 November 1967.
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The first edition of H.W. Fowler's Modern English Usage has the following definition: > A prig is a believer in red tape; that is, he exalts the method above the > work done. A prig, like the Pharisee, says: "God, I thank thee that I am not > as other men are"—except that he often substitutes Self for God. A prig is > one who works out his paltry accounts to the last farthing, while his > millionaire neighbour lets accounts take care of themselves. A prig expects > others to square themselves to his very inadequate measuring rod, and > condemns them with confidence if they do not.
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If you wants to be tittivated, you must pay accordin'.' :'Oh dear me!' cried the patient, 'oh dear, dear!' Malvolio: "a prig with an instinct for grandeur". Another famous portrait of a prig is that of Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Robert.
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Some prig with Him about their time, and will make religion but their by-work.
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A prig () is a person who shows an inordinately zealous approach to matters of form and propriety—especially where the prig has the ability to show superior knowledge to those who do not know the protocol in question. They see little need to consider the feelings or intentions of others, relying instead on established order and rigid rules to resolve all questions. The prig approaches social interactions with a strong sense of self-righteousness.
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According to a discourse analytical survey, which was published by political scientist Katrin Auer in the Österreichischen Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (ÖZP), are especially topics placed by the political right under the cipher "pc" (the term coming up usually because of Gutmenschen) of which the society was not able to talk openly without falling victim to the "terror of Gutmenschen". Gutmenschen thereby revealed were often pictured club swinging, in this context talking about "moralizing prig", "racist prig", "fascist prig", "Auschwitz prig" or similar, so Auer. Therefore, a concept of the enemy and a concept of the taboo came up, in which in particular misogynist, racist and anti-Semitic comments appeared rebellious and taboo breaking, it was said in the article. The term Gutmensch functioned here as code in order to being able to talk and being understood in this paradigm without having to expose one's own attitude, Auer adds.
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'We looks charming.' :'We looks a deal charminger than we are, then,' returned Mrs Prig, a little chafed in her temper. 'We got out of bed back'ards, I think, for we're as cross as two sticks. I never see sich a man.
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"Greatness," according to Fielding, is only attained by mounting to the top stair (of the gallows). Fielding's satire also consistently attacks the Whig party by having Wild choose, among all the thieves cant terms (several lexicons of which were printed with the Lives of Wild in 1725), "prig" to refer to the profession of burglary. Fielding suggests that Wild becoming a Great Prig was the same as Walpole becoming a Great Whig: theft and the Whig party were never so directly linked. The figures of Peachum and Macheath were picked up by Bertolt Brecht for his updating of Gay's opera as The Threepenny Opera.
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The novel turns autobiographical elements into a call for Africa to move as a continent beyond apartheid. Wole Soyinka criticised its utopian "love optimism", calling the novel's main character, Kamara, an "unbelievable prig".Wole Soyinka, Myth, Literature, and the African World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
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He befriends Dr. Aziz, but cultural and racial differences, and personal misunderstandings, separate them. ; Adela Quested : A young British schoolmistress who is visiting India with the vague intention of marrying Ronny Heaslop. Intelligent, brave, honest, but slightly prudish, she is what Fielding calls a "prig." She arrives with the intention of seeing the real India.
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A doctrinaire supporter of > Middle-European socialism as opposed to Greco-French-U.S. ideas of democracy > and liberalism. Subject to the old-fashioned philosophical morality of > Nietzsche which frequently leads him into jail or disgrace. A self-conscious > prig, so given to examining all sides of a question that he becomes > thoroughly addled while remaining always in the same spot.
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Rider Sandman, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, is hired as an investigator as a formality to rubber-stamp the death sentence of a condemned murderer. Instead, he discovers a conspiracy to conceal the real killer. In the slang of the time, a “gallows thief,” (also a “crap prig”) is a person who prevents the hanging of an innocent person.
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The scorn he would bear if people knew of her terror would stall his career; hence his angry reply. When Major Crampas arrives, Effi cannot help relishing his attentions despite Crampas being a married womaniser, and their love is consummated. Her husband looks down on Crampas, whom he finds a lewd philanderer with cavalier views of law. Crampas views Innstetten as a patronising prig.
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Yates was a pantomimist frequently himself seen as Harlequin. Under the management of Thomas Harris, John Rutherford, George Colman the Elder, and William Powell, King made his first appearance at Covent Garden on 31 October 1767 as Major Oakly, in Colman's The Jealous Wife, and was the original Prig and Frightened Boor in Royal Merchant, an opera based by Thomas Hull on the Beggar's Bush on 14 December.
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Especially obvious becomes the strategy, if there are actual or claimed taboos. The art of the rhetoric is working when terms like Gutmensch or "moralizing prig" bring the political opponent in discussions into situations where the reply is supposed to say "my opinion or the tabooed view". This rhetoric proves as effective, because only under difficult circumstances can factual matters be discussed analytically. Clemens Knobloch (Universität Siegen) refers to this relationship.
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Livington claimed that Pascal evolved "[from] a prig into a charlatan" and that his learning is obsolete; and "It is in recovering Pascal the poet and artist from the dross of his biography and his thought that Professor Bishop's criticism is perhaps least effective". But Livingston concluded by praising the book as suggestive, comprehensive, and thorough.Arthur Livingston, untitled review of Pascal: The Life of Genius, Romanic Review, vol. 29 (1938), pp. 85–87.
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Shotover needs to invent a weapon of mass destruction. His last invention, a lifeboat, did not bring in much cash. Ellie intends to marry businessman Boss Mangan, but she really loves a man she met in the National Gallery. Unfortunately, her fiancé is a ruthless scoundrel, her father's a bumbling prig, and it turns out that the man she's in love with is Hector, Hesione's husband, who spends his time telling romantic lies to women.
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Although of legitimate birth and appropriate class, he is an ill-natured prig with plenty of hypocritical 'virtue.' When Bridget dies unexpectedly, Blifil intercepts a letter, which his mother intended for his uncle's eyes only. The letter's contents are not revealed until late in the film. But after his mother's funeral, Blifil and his two tutors, Mr. Thwackum and Mr. Square (who also tutored Tom), join forces to convince the squire that Tom is a villain.
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Unconvinced, the narrator ridicules Cynthia's searches for acrostics, and playfully criticizes her party guests, to which Cynthia fiercely reacts by calling him a "prig" and "snob." This ends their relationship. The story returns to the narrator's encounter with D. Having learnt of Cynthia's death, he is suddenly frantic, fearful, and incapable of sleep, preoccupied with the idea of Cynthia's ghost returning to haunt him as her philosophies suggested. He tries to fight her spirit by searching for acrostics in Shakespeare.
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Graham Harris, in his account of the execution of Captain Kidd, describes Lorrain as "a rather sanctimonious prig", quotes Bryant's view of Lorrain as "addicted to piety" and describes the Accounts as equivalent to the "gutter press". Lorrain died at his house in Town Ditch, London, on 7 October 1719. He is said to have left £5,000. His post, which was in the gift of the Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen, was keenly contested until 20 November when 'Mr.
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Fanny Burney, having earlier described him as "an upright, stern old man... an old prig," later recorded when she was his patient: "He really has been... amazingly civil and polite to me... as kind as he is skilful." His niece Betty Fothergill described him in her journal as "surely the first of men. With the becoming dignity of age he unites the cheerfulness and liberality of youth. He possesses the most virtues and the fewest failings of any man I know".
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In the novel, he becomes Oliver's closest friend (although he betrays Oliver when Oliver is caught) and he tries to make him a pickpocket, but soon realizes that Oliver will not succeed, and feels sorry for him, saying "What a pity it is he isn't a prig!" He also has a close relationship with Charley Bates. The Artful Dodger is characterized as a child who acts like an adult. He is described as wearing adult clothes which are much too large for him.
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Finally, there are young women like Mary Mallory, who is described as "absolutely a child, so far as the world is concerned" and so gullible she will believe almost anything she is told. In a world full of double standards of morality, men are conceded a greater amount of freedom. Robert Wingate, for example, possessed about the usual number of faults and virtues of his type. Whilst certainly not a prig, he could not with justice have been placed in the saintly category.
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The film introduces a number of new elements which will soon be regarded as typically Chabrolian. It is set in a bourgeois milieu, and the overall style is self-consciously polished—making it closer to "cinema of quality" than the New Wave. There is also a typical ambiguity about the characters, the guileless Charles emerging as something of a prig, and Paul as a flawed but more complex and interesting character. Charles' guardian angel, an idealistic bookseller, is counterbalanced by Paul's companion, the malevolent Clovis.
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66 Wodehouse's literary biographer Benny Green, while excoriating Reed as a "hereditary prig" and a "religious huckster", accepts that he influenced Wodehouse, and cites in particular The Willoughby Captains. Green also echoes Quigly in asserting that none of Reed's successors could match his abilities as a storyteller.Green, pp. 15–17 Quigly summarises Reed's legacy to future school story writers: he established a genre by "alter[ing] the shapeless, long-winded, garrulous and moralistic school story" into something popular and readable, a convention followed by all his successors.
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Falconet is generally regarded as a cruel parody of Disraeli’s long-time political rival William Gladstone. Falconet shares with Gladstone his religious fervour, intelligence and oratorical style but is described as “essentially a prig”, “arrogant and peremptory” and having “a complete deficiency in the sense of humour”. It has also been suggested that Lady Bertram was "one more memory of Lady Palmerston" and that the character of Hartmann, a nihilist, was inspired by the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia which took place whilst Disraeli was writing the novel.
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His tutor, a young C. S. Lewis, regarded him as an "idle prig" and Betjeman in turn considered Lewis unfriendly, demanding, and uninspiring as a teacher. Betjeman particularly disliked the coursework's emphasis on linguistics, and dedicated most of his time to cultivating his social life and his interest in English ecclesiastical architecture, and to private literary pursuits. At Oxford he was a friend of Maurice Bowra, later (1938 to 1970) to be Warden of Wadham. Betjeman had a poem published in Isis, the university magazine, and served as editor of the Cherwell student newspaper during 1927.
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He wrote for The American Mercury, Commonweal, and The New Leader before being hired by Fortune magazine in 1950 as a writer. He later became an editor at Fortune, and in his final two decades at the publication before his retirement in 1997, he wrote more than 400 of the magazine's Keeping Up columns, even after stepping down as associate managing editor in 1988. In a February 1988 editorial marking Seligman's transition to a contributing editor after 37 years at the magazine, the managing editor of Fortune, Marshall Loeb, described Seligman as "an acerbic slayer of (mostly liberal) prig-headedness ... [who] uses elegance and trenchant wit to wage his never-ending battle against fustian thinking."Loeb, Marshall.
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The tune is not an Irish one, but stems from the first line of an English song, The Bowman Prigg's Farewell. The British Union-Catalogue of Early Music (BUCEM) lists four single sheet copies with music, all tentatively dated c 1740, and there is another copy in the Julian Marshal collection at Harvard. However, the tune To the Hundreds of Drury I write is in the ballad opera The Devil of a Duke, 1732, Air No 4 Bowman Prig is mentioned in song No 22 of the ballad opera The Fashionable Lady, 1730, but this may not be a reference to the song. "Bowman Prigg" is a cant term for a pick-purse.
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Author Graeme Kay discussed Ken's evolution within the show: "He began as a bit of a prig, in the eyes of working-class father Frank, but matured into a sound family man, only to go astray. He changed from teacher to newspaper owner, through various jobs, but threw that away too. He has always liked to see himself as a big fish in a small pond, with his steely, domineering manner and feeling of superior intellect." Little suggested that Ken has transformed from an angry young man who never fitted in and was always challenging the system, into a bore next door, eventually discovering that he couldn't change the world after all.
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Blunt's father, a vicar, was assigned to Paris with the British embassy chapel, and moved his family to the French capital for several years during Anthony's childhood. The young Anthony became fluent in French and experienced intensely the artistic culture available to him there, stimulating an interest which lasted a lifetime and formed the basis for his later career. He was educated at Marlborough College, where he joined the college's secret 'Society of Amici', in which he was a contemporary of Louis MacNeice (whose unfinished autobiography The Strings Are False contains numerous references to Blunt), John Betjeman and Graham Shepard. He was remembered by historian John Edward Bowle, a year ahead of Blunt at Marlborough, as "an intellectual prig, too preoccupied with the realm of ideas".
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An ITEP report which attracts worldwide media attention is the Offshore Shell Games: The Use of Offshore Tax Havens by Fortune 500 Companies report. ITEP jointly fund the report with the U.S. Public Interest Research Group ("PRIG"), Education Fund. The report adopts a purely quantitative approach and calculates the scale of involvement by leading U.S. multinationals with tax havens by conducting analysis on their SEC 10-K and 10-Q filings. The latest report was in 2017 and it ranks tax havens by two different type of quantitative calculations, based on 2012-2015 10-K and 10-Q filings: ITEP's ranking of tax havens matches with other academic rankings of tax havens, for example: Note that the above two academic studies example global corporate activity, and not just Fortune 500 Companies.
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Celestina, is can be noted, is not an ascetic or a prig; she herself pursues pleasure, but in a moderate way that is in keeping with the mores of her society and class. Aretina is to be faulted, and needs to be reformed, because she goes too far. The play also has a more purely comic third-level plot, involving the character Master Frederick, who descends from scholarship to drunkenness; and it contains the comic features typical of Shirleian comedy, like the clownish suitors Littleworth and Kickshaw (a "kickshaw" is a trinket, a flashy object of little intrinsic value), plus Madame Decoy the bawd, Sir William Scentlove the worthless dandy, and Haircut the barber. Aphra Behn would later borrow plot elements from Shirley's play for her own The Lucky Chance (1686).
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Letter from Lord Monboddo to James Harris, 31 December 1772; reprinted by William Knight 1900 Samuel Johnson found Harris uncongenial, saying he was "a sound, solid scholar," but "a prig" and "a coxcomb" who "did not understand his own system" in Harris's work Hermes. The music historian Charles Burney, on the other hand, esteemed him as a writer on music. Harris, his wife and daughter attended a high-powered domestic concert at Burney's house in May 1775, of which a vivid description by the 22-year-old Frances (Fanny) Burney survives: "I had the satisfaction to sit next to Mr. Harris, who is very chearful [sic] and communicative, and his conversation instructive and agreeable." His daughter Louisa ("a modest, reserved, and sensible girl") was asked to sing, and Harris accompanied her.
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Some people knew of Blunt's role as a Soviet spy long before his public exposure. According to MI5 papers released in 2002, Moura Budberg reported in 1950 that Blunt was a member of the Communist Party, but this was ignored. According to Blunt himself, he never joined because Burgess persuaded him that he would be more valuable to the anti-fascist crusade by working with Burgess. He was certainly on friendly terms with Sir Dick White, the head of MI5 and later MI6, in the 1960s, and they used to spend Christmas together with Victor Rothschild in Rothschild's Cambridge house."Scholar, gentleman, prig, spy", The Observer, London, 11 November 2001 His NKVD control had also become suspicious at the sheer amount of material he was passing over and suspected him of being a triple agent.
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In 1960, Conton's novel The African was the twelfth book published in the important Heinemann's African Writers Series. Partly autobiographical, it revolves around an African student in England from the fictional nation of Songhai, his romance with a white South African woman that ends tragically, and his political determination to bring down the apartheid system in South Africa. Although The African had widespread acclaim, critics such as Wole Soyinka were unimpressed with the novel and found the romantic aspects unconvincing, which he referred to as utopian 'love optimism', and called the main character, Kamara, an 'unbelievable prig'. In 1961, Conton published his two-volume work entitled West Africa in History which covered various aspects of West African history and combined his interests and experience as a historian with his literary flair.
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According to H.R.F. Keating, "Later the cousins took a sharper view of the Philo Vance character, Manfred Lee calling him, with typical vehemence, 'the biggest prig that ever came down the pike'." The Roman Hat Mystery established a reliable template: a geographic formula title (The Dutch Shoe Mystery, The Egyptian Cross Mystery, etc.); an unusual crime; a complex series of clues and red herrings; multiple misdirected solutions before the final truth is revealed, and a cast of supporting characters including Ellery's father, Inspector Richard Queen, and his irascible assistant, Sergeant Velie. What became the best known part of the early Ellery Queen books was the "Challenge to the Reader." This was a single page near the end of the book declaring that the reader had seen all the same clues Ellery had, and that only one solution was possible.
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Three "notorious rogues", William Mathews, Christopher Matthews and Obadiah Lemmon robbed a lady in a coach near St. Paul's Churchyard. Wild for fear of losing these profitable criminals, met the three and arranged for one of them to be an evidence in the court, which meant him giving the names of "a numerous train of offenders" and convicting them. but at the same time he should not have mentioned the stealing of a dozen of handkerchiefs and other robberies involving Wild directly as a receiver, otherwise they would lose their "factor" by "bringing his own neck into the noose and put it into power of every little prig". As a result, the three offenders escaped the justice and the thief-taker received a reward of £40 for arresting and hanging "shim-sham thieves", Hugh Oakley and Henry Chickley.
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Ken ye how to gain a Whig, Aikendrum, Aikendrum Ken > ye how to gain a Whig, Aikendrum Look Jolly, blythe and big, take his ain > blest side and prig, And the poor, worm-eaten Whig, Aikendrum, Aikendrum For > opposition's sake you will win! Sir Walter Scott in his novel The Antiquary (1816) refers to Aiken Drum in a story told by an old beggar about the origins of what has been perceived by the protagonist as a Roman fort. The beggar tells him that it was actually built by him and others for "auld Aiken Drum's bridal" and that one of the masons cut the shape of a ladle into the stone as a joke on the bridegroom. The reference suggests that the rhyme, and particularly the chorus, was well enough known in the early nineteenth century for the joke to be understood.
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She also played Miss Murgatroyd in the Miss Marple adaptation A Murder is Announced(1985), Betsey Prig in a star- studded adaptation of Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit (1994) and Lady Fox-Custard in Simon and the Witch. In 1987 she joined the cast on And There's More and was paired up with Nicholas Smith for a number of sketches for each episode as an old couple. In 1989, she appeared as a medium in the video for Morrissey's "Ouija Board, Ouija Board". She played Mrs Wembley in the BBC comedy series On the Up, which starred Dennis Waterman and ran from 1990 to 1992. From 1994, she played Madge Hardcastle, drum playing wife to Rocky Hardcastle played by Frank Middlemass, and stepmother of Geoffrey Palmer's character Lionel in As Time Goes By. She appeared as Harriet Coverly in “The Mild Bunch”, S3:E8 of Pie in the Sky (TV series) (1995).
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The children's author and philosophy professor Claudia Mills wrote that Goofus and Gallant is heavily didactic and engages in "simple moralizing" without children philosophically" but is nonetheless effective at imparting its lessons to children. According to author and professor of literature and pop culture Harold Schechter, "though Goofus is clearly meant to be obnoxious, even destructive–a bundle of unbridled aggression–he generally seems more appealing than the do-gooder Gallant", which Schechter believed necessitated the explanatory caption below each strip to confirm which character children should be emulating. Donald Kaul writing in The Des Moines Register described Gallant as "an awful prig" and wrote that while the children he observed reading Goofus and Gallant "continue to exhibit an average amount of Goofus behavior, [they] always identify completely with Gallant, the goody-goody. They jeer at Goofus's shortcomings and pat themselves on the back whenever Gallant turns himself in to do an onerous chore like taking music lessons.
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