Word: staid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the wintry years of its northern Depression, Canada's financial centre of gravity shifted westward from the first city of the Dominion to the second, from staid old Montreal to booming Toronto. In mental atmosphere the two cities are different as Boston and Chicago. From the golden days of the fur trade to the building of the railroads, from the peopling of the prairies to the rise of lumber and newsprint, the wealth of Canada tended to flow through Montreal. Some of that wealth always came to rest in the snug little mansions at the foot of Mount...
...comedy, and, after all, we must judge it from that angle. The cast, though not phenomenal by any means, does a definitely satisfactory job. Robert Conness as the beefy-complexioned country gentleman, Mr. Bennet, handles his three twittering daughters and their erratic mother in the masterful fashion of a staid old Englishman. His wife, played by Molly Pearson, is the perfect simple-minded, scheming mother whose sole aim in life is to see her daughters married off before it's "too late". Lowell Gilmore epitomizes the title, "Pride and Prejudice", in his role of the tremendously aloof Mr. Darcy...
...Church of St. Nicholas pealed for Juliana. Aboard the Dutch liner Statendam in Manhattan harbor, Knickerbocker notables toasted her name and "the truly Dutch name of President Roosevelt" at an eleven-course Dutch dinner. At the Netherlands Club in Gramercy Park, the Royal Dutch wedding caused even the most staid members to down thimbleful after thimbleful of scorching Holland...
Earnest students were aghast yesterday as a large truck drew up to staid old University Hall labeled light wines and vermouth. They were even shocked as the driver proceeded to toss large bundles nonchalantly to the ground in front of one of the doors...
Basic requirement of the numbers game is a figure published daily in the newspapers. Until 1930 the most popular figures were the New York Clearing House daily clearings and balances. In that year, after numerous attempts had been made to bribe staid Clearing House employes for advance information, Manhattan dailies ceased to print the figures. It was a futile gesture, for the bigtime numbers bankers simply shifted to other figures. Butter, egg and stock sales are used in combination for the game in Winston-Salem, N. C. Every important newspaper takes elaborate precautions to see that any figures likely...