Word: staid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staid, steady seller at Christmas time is Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. This Christmas, buyers had better beware. Victor last week marketed a new recording of Nutcracker-done by Spike Jones and his City Slickers. It was the musical mayhem...
...companies had gone broke, and many a staid old U.S. firm, including Lee, Higginson & Co. had teetered dangerously from the financial earthquake...
...roly-poly picture framer named Boris Mirski came to Boston from Lithuania. Ever since, while framing New England portraits and brown landscapes for the residents of staid Beacon Hill, he made modern art-a much less salable commodity in Boston-his side line. This week, in a redbrick, 78-year-old Back Bay mansion, right next door to the stuffy Guild of Boston Artists on swank Newbury Street, he opened an art gallery with an exhibition of 53 paintings by a Guatemalan Indian, Carlos Mérida...
...Negro has ever sung or been invited to sing a principal role in the Metropolitan Opera. Even dark-skinned roles (Otello, Aïda and her father, the Ethiopian King, the African slaves in Meyerbeer's L'Africaine) have always been sung by whites. The staid Met says that its board welcomes "all operatically competent singers." By the Met's definition, those who would not make the grade include: Tenor Roland Hayes, Baritones Paul Robeson and Todd Duncan, Soprano Dorothy Maynor and Contralto Marian Anderson-five of the best voices in the U.S. or any country...
...rarefied air of high office in U.S. industry has often been considered too thin for women to stand. Last week, the staid old Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) broke this antifeminine taboo. Into two of its five executive posts of assistant secretary it raised two ex-stenographers: brown-eyed, brown-haired Miss Muriel E. Reynolds, 42, and small (5 ft. i in.) Mrs. Margery M. Porter, also 42, who wears her brown hair in a feather cut. They are the first women ever to become corporate officers in mighty Standard...