A story in chess lore involves the great Danish Jewish player Aron Nimzowitsch, who, at a tournament in the mid-1920s, found ...

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Perhaps about the third reading it dawned on me that Stephen was, after all, a bit of a prig; and to that extent I no longer identified myself with him. (How could I?) Quite a while later I ...

It was only on his journey home that he realised what offence he had caused: “I felt like a right prig; I dishonoured the lamb and my relatives.” After this he decided he would eat high ...

"The blue-eyed Nathaniel," as D. H. Lawrence called him, was not the prig he tried to be. By the time the full complexity of Hawthorne's mind was made clear to scholars in our time, it was because ...

And Douggie McMeekin plays a dim and tedious prig named Tindaro, who uses his riches to fund his hypochondria. He travels ...