priggishness
11primness — noun 1. excessive or affected modesty • Syn: ↑prudishness, ↑prudery, ↑Grundyism • Derivationally related forms: ↑prudish (for: ↑prudishness), ↑prim …
12prig — I. noun Etymology: prig to steal Date: 1610 thief II. noun Etymology: probably from 1prig Date: 1676 1. archaic fop 2 …
13Joe Orton — Born John Kingsley Orton 1 January 1933(1933 01 01) Leicester, England Died 9 August 1967(1967 08 09) (aged 34) Islington, London, England John Kingsley ( Joe ) Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August …
14Dayglo Abortions — performing at The Cobalt Hotel in Vancouver, BC, August 2004 Background information Origin Victoria, British Columbia …
15Spiked (magazine) — Infobox Website name = Spiked favicon = caption = url = http://www.spiked online.com commercial = No type = Politics registration = No owner = Brendan O Neill author = Mick Hume launch date = current status = revenue = Spiked (also written as… …
16Peter Watson (arts benefactor) — Victor William (Peter) Watson (September 14 1908 – May 3 1956) was a wealthy English art collector and benefactor. He funded the literary magazine, Horizon , edited by Cyril Connolly.Life and workPeter Watson was the son of William George Watson …
17Pygmalion and Galatea — Pygmalion and Galatea, an Original Mythological Comedy is a blank verse play by W. S. Gilbert in three acts based on the Pygmalion story. It opened at the Haymarket Theatre in London on December 9 1871. It was revived many times, including an… …
18Prig — A prig (IPAEng|ˈprɪg, sometimes spelled prigg) is someone who shows an inordinately zealous approach to matters of form and propriety; especially where the prig has the ability to show his/her superior knowledge to those who don t know the… …
19Words and Music (play) — Samuel Beckett wrote the radio play, Words and Music between November and December 1961. [Both James Knowlson ( Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett , p 497) and Stan Gontarski ( The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett , p 650) quote these… …
20James Moorhouse — (19 November 1826 – 9 April 1915) was an Anglican bishop of Melbourne and of Manchester.Moorhouse was born in Sheffield, England, the only son of James Moorhouse, a lover of books and a deep thinker and a manufacturer of cutlery; his mother,… …
