Word: staid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...staid person is the easiest to shock. What can shock New England is hardly considered worth mentioning in Central America...
...dispersed, for the course of the Conservatives is well fixed by precedent and platform. Uncertainty of tenure is gone, for no fresh issues seem likely to lower on the clear sky of English politics. Altogether, Parliament has given up that gambling spirit of a few months ago for a staid and steady gait upon an unadventurous road...
...World's Work, the Century, the staid Atlantic Monthly...
...open confession of his dissolute youth. "I was deep in sin, loving sin, following sin and living for sin . . .", and all on account of articles in magazines. Dr. Straton averred that religion had redeemed him, but that such articles continue. He particularized The World's Work, The Century, the staid Atlantic Monthly as prints that are putting "into the literary and intellectual pot enough poison from their wild gourds to utterly destroy the people...
...this beating of the big bass-drum, this circus-holiday? How came the staid Exchange to lend all three rings to the revels, the gambles, of a performing bulls? For three reasons, "men said: The election of President Coolidge; the accompanying assurance that under his administration no legislation would be directed against the railroads ; the fact that Great Britain put off the corduroys of Socialism for the suave dinner-jacket of a Conservative ministry. These were the occurrences that made small investors fish stuffed stockings from behind stoves and rush to the curb with their coin; that made big investors...