Word: staid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more staid of subscribers carped; others acquiesced. Last week, in London, Artist Frank Brangwyn continued with his plans, imperturbed. From a U. S. revue appearing at the London Pavilion, he selected Negro show girls as the models for the panels he is designing for the War memorial of the House of Lords in the Royal Gallery. The sheen of ebony figures will appear on the panel representing the Maltese Islands in the series called the "Pageant of the Empire," which show the various racial types. Carpers were alarmed by suspicions of fierce negroid heads, gleaming black torsos, black limbs...
Clerical Chuckle. Unexpectedly and yet frequently the editors of the Christian Century use headlines that cause readers to chuckle. In their current issue they entitle a staid article about a hymnal and a metrical life of Christ in Arabic: "Hope Rhymes Will Win Moslems...
...United States Steel corporation in danger of being outclassed by other corporations headed by younger men? Isn't it possible that the directing heads of the United States Steel corporation are too old in view of the staid and stolid policies of the management? I mean this of course in the kindest...
About a score of years ago the heart of Harvard University was torn with maddened anguish. A Radcliffe lady--Mrs. Ride Johnson Young--had perpetrated a play called "Brown of Harvard." It was like nothing the staid precincts of the Harvard Yard had ever seen or hoped to see. Conservative alumni gnashed their teeth in impotent frenzy. Undergraduates, not conservative at all, greeted the Boston opening of the play with senescent garden produce...
...Miss Brewster's Millions" does affect one. At least it affects staid Cantabridgians who invade the gilded realms of alabaster cherubims and sera--so forth and so long enough to wonder why garlic never loses its saver and to smile, laugh, weep at the perils and pleasures of Bebe Daniels of the Enterprise Productions and a pleasant, very pleasant smile...