Word: staid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Closest friend of Frau Gustav Stresemann, widow of the late, great German Foreign Minister, is Frau Albert von Baligand. These two tolerably young, distinctively vivacious ladies ("Kate" and "Else") were recently the life of Berlin's staid, stodgy officialdom (a German Cabinet officer's wife is supposed to look like an unpainted, unpowdered laundress, and most do). Tongues wagged when, two years ago, Stresemann sent Dr. von Baligand, then director of the press bureau of the German Government, to Portugal as German Minister. It was thought that Diplomat von Baligand owed this spectacular promotion to his wife...
...annual game between the bat boys and the managers the managers were returned the victors yesterday on Soldiers Field by a score of 5 to 1. The game was not a wild and wooly affair as these tilts usually are, but developed into a staid and serious grudge battle...