bluenoses

The secretary recruits vaudeville acts, in opposition to a gloomy group of businessmen called the “bluenoses” who have a financial interest in prolonging the Depression.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Wilde, never very shy about his bisexuality, rebelled against the hypocrisy of the straight-laced bluenoses who kept their marriages intact but also took off for long weekends in the country with their young boyfriends -- "Bunburying" (notice the little play on words ....).

High Society 2009

Put it in my stash right beside “thundering bluenoses from the Society to Repeal the 20th Century.”

Monday, Feb. 22 – The Bleat. 2010

It's given the bluenoses yet another cause to squeal over, certainly.

And now it's no more Open Source Boobs, it's the Miley Cyrus In A Bedsheet Show! 2008

The presence or lack of sex in no way determines whether a book is for teenagers or not -- no matter what certain bluenoses might want to think.

POLL RESULTS: Marketing Young Adult SF/F 2008

Or they could, until the bluenoses and prudes got involved and cleaned everything up.

January – 2009 – The Bleat. 2009

Or they could, until the bluenoses and prudes got involved and cleaned everything up.

27 – January – 2009 – The Bleat. 2009

Of course, I completely ignore the bluenoses for whom any use of the diction in question is somehow destructive of the human spirit or an affront to the Language itself.

The Volokh Conspiracy » No Habitual Swearing Around Your Kids in New Jersey: 2009

I noticed your comments about the huns and how you changed it to bluenoses.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

Or they could, until the bluenoses and prudes got involved and cleaned everything up.

Tuesday Comics – The Bleat. 2009