Mrs. Grundy
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For another, Burton, who always referred to the proper British public contemptuously as "Mrs. Grundy," goaded the good lady abominably.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many scientists engaged in the controversy between biology and Mrs. Grundy over Darwin.
From Time Magazine Archive
A good half of the letters in the volume are concerned with the difficulties of reconstructing Jezebel in the image of Mrs. Grundy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not everyone, however, was so disapproving of the avalanche of expensive gaiety as Mrs. Grundy and Laborite George Thomson.
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Very likely some Mrs. Grundy will observe, “I don’t believe it, boys will be boys, young men must sow their wild oats, and women must not expect miracles.”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
