Word: staid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Harry Gordon Selfridge, 90, Wisconsin-born merchant prince who built London's largest department store; of pneumonia; in London. Retiring at 46 after piling up a fortune with Chicago's Marshall Field & Co., Selfridge took a trip to London, was shocked by staid British selling methods, opened the store on Oxford Street that grew rich and famous through high-pressure advertising...
...last week the rebellion had reached clear to the Maritimes. In staid Ottawa, 500 Lisgar Collegiate Institute students paraded to Parliament in a driving, cold rain, waving soggy placards: "Candy is dandy, but eight cents ain't handy," and "We'll eat worms before we eat eight-cent chocolate bars." In Toronto and Montreal, demonstrations got tangled with the Communist-inclined National Federation of Labor Youth, which tried to take over. Dominion retailers were trapped between high wholesale prices and higher juvenile tempers...
...demolition of the staid soda bar comes one constructive note for undergraduates. Participants in the exercise classes at the Indoor Athletic Building will be able to observe themselves in action in the near future, thanks to the gift of the now defunet large mirror behind the fountain to the University...
...also the citadel of Unitarianism). The occasion: one of six consecutive evening meetings addressed by such outstanding religious liberals as Dr. John Haynes Holmes and Hungary's Bishop Alexander Szent-Ivanyi. At this Unitarian equivalent of a "preaching mission," tall, 52-year-old Liberal van Paassen gave his staid Bostonian audience no opportunity to doze. If liberalism is indeed the devil, the devil is what he gave them. For a full hour and a quarter he sawed the air and pounded the pulpit in defense of human progress and the early perfectibility of man. Excerpts...
...with the solidest of reputations for giving unbiased advice, the firm still thrives, acting as fiduciary for funds totaling over $100 million. Its present head-and fifth in direct line of descent from the founder-is staid, bespectacled George Emlen Roosevelt, 59, a noted amateur chess player and yachtsman. He will be succeeded ultimately by one of his two sons or five nephews, in the tradition of the family motto: Qui Plantavit Curabit (he who planted will tend...