Hef and his deputies, on the other hand, have worked themselves into delightful indignation about their martyrdom to American prudery.
32.
So much for Kenneth Clark's dismissal of the era as " the great frost of Victorian prudery ."
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Never mind, for that matter, the bravado of the French themselves : all that disdainful sniffing and snorting at American prudery.
34.
"The Revolution has embraced sexual prudery with the same passion a necrophiliac embraces corpses, " he says at one point.
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Today, the very word Victorian suggests stuffiness, prudery, chastity, traditionalism, sentimentality and a host of other supposedly conservative attributes.
36.
The original field was fairly light with the favorite, the filly Prudery, owned by Harry Payne Whitney, facing no serious competition.
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Grey Lag immediately became the favorite, with Prudery the second choice, driving the odds on Sporting Blood up to 3-1.
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During the race, Sporting Blood overtook the ailing Prudery gaining his owner nearly a half million dollars, including wagers and the purse.
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For some observers, the passing years have made Wilde the quintessential martyr to Victorian prudery and hypocrisy, but not all gay commentators agree.
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I have counted at least 20 of them, speculation about everything from Washington's innate prudery to its unconscious desire for parliamentary government.
