Word: staid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long time followers of football have keenly felt this desire. Especially is this the case with fans in the west who object rather strenuously to their fellow fans of the east resting all too complacently on the fallacious assumption that because their teams do represent the staid old east they play the superior brand of football. Fans in the west have for some time now quite strenuously objected to this unwarranted supposition, and deny that there is any sound basis for it until it is proven in actual play on the gridiron...
...Burroughs are a thoroughly conventional, conservative English family, living in the small, staid town of Knotley ("on-Thames," undoubtedly). Their irreproachable existence is rudely disturbed one afternoon by the return of William, the Black Sheep; or, as William aptly characterizes himself, "I'm the family skeleton; can't you hear my bones rattle?" Unable to abide the domineering influence of his father or his interminable demands for "an explanation" of each wayward act, William had fled to America fifteen years before; now he fails to find the fatted calf awaiting--in fact he receives a decidedly frosty welcome from...