Word: staid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than Vienna, G.I.s liked Salzburg with its mossy stone and patinaed copper. The Red Cross had moved into the Mirabell Casino, and G.I.s listened to symphony concerts in the Mirabell Castle's gardens.* Then, oblivious to the echoes of Mozart's minuets, they jitterbugged in the old, staid Hotel Pitter, which had suddenly acquired something known as the Sky Haven Garden...
...start he gave it, Pressed Steel coasted onward & upward through 30 years of prosperity, during which stockholders drew $38 million in dividends. Over the years Pressed Steel grew staid and conservative, floundered badly in the Big Depression, went bankrupt in 1933, barely survived a bitter reorganization battle, still operated at a loss...
Publishing houses, like men, can have "dangerous years." Manhattan's Prentice-Hall, Inc., staid publisher of textbooks, was behaving last week like a middleaged family man on a fling. Its light-o'-love: Duchess Hotspur,† a bedroomy historical novel. Less than a fortnight after publication it had sold 70,000 copies...
Since the end of gas rationing, Harvard pedestrians have protested their traditional role as fair game for Cambridge drivers. Once again the old cartoon of the staid Brahmin matron squatting for a running start across the Square touches sympathetic notes among the local sidewalk gentry. Professor William Yandell Elliott's prewar guess that no battle could be quite so dangerous as crossing Harvard Square during rush hour did not consider the possibilities of the Atom Bomb, but the analogy is still too close for comfort...
...peripatetic correspondent" of the staid British medical paper, The Lancet, contributed to the current issue a clinical report on an unclinical subject: lying in bed. Said...