Word: staid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corps section on the third floor he waves a hand at flier friends, flashes a white-toothed grin, heads for his office. Hour after hour he sits earnestly in an endless succession of technical conferences, usually breaks the day to lunch with a friend or two at the staid Army & Navy Club. There, too, nobody pays attention...
...Yugoslavia's doctors at the last moment were ordered to stay home. But so many bigwigs were allowed to attend that the delegates told each other there could be no war while they were away from their armies. In beribboned and bemedaled uniforms, they made the staid lobby of the Willard Hotel gay. They also made excellent propaganda for peace. To experts' previews of the next...
Yesterday, the representatives of the Harvard faculty challenged the existence of organized educational vice. The challenge was framed in the staid and conservative expressions of those who rightly value their great responsibilities. This does not rob it of its significance. The very fact of the action, and the implications which lie so obviously within the guarded words of the Council's statement, mark it as a milestone...
...many years had they seen such an exhibition of jumping, crouching and beating the air as this slippery-skulled Greek gave them. But under his jumping-jack direction the staid Boston Symphony, churned into a lather of excitement, surpassed itself. Delighted Boston critics gave Mitropoulos full marks, even hinted at comparisons with the great Koussevitzky himself. When he came back a second time, Conductor Mitropoulos made almost too much of a hit. After that Maestro Mitropoulos did not guest-conduct in Boston again...
...like it. Six years ago, Philadelphia's platinum-blond Conductor Leopold Stokowski suggested a solution: make the parents stay away. Thereupon he started a series of "Concerts for Youth," sold tickets to youth only (between 13 and 25), got "bouncers" to patrol the aisles of the staid Academy of Music with orders to throw out anyone who looked overage...