Word: staid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Telephone & Telegraph securities. He kept his own legal fees at rock bottom, watched those of his underwriters. To cut printing bills, he ordered only 47,500 copies of the 70-page prospectus, an almost skimpy number for selling 108,000 $1,000 bonds. It is rumored he even asked staid, profit-conscious American Bank Note Co. to run off his bonds at cut prices...
...years' standing. But whichever way it moves, the Legion well do its country a service by thinking its problems through to the end and stating its position clearly enough for all to grasp. Its influence is great, but no greater than its responsibility. Let the thousands of delegates shake staid old Boston like a toy rattle, led them tic up traffic in knots the Boy Scouts never heard of, but still the eyes of the nation will watch intently for the outcome of this convention...
...Winchellism on the standards of the press. When Winchell began gossiping in 1924 for the late scatological tabloid Evening Graphic, no U. S. paper hawked rumors about the marital relations of public figures until they turned up in divorce courts. For 16 years gossip columny spread until even the staid New York Times whispered that it heard from friends of a son of the President that he was going to be divorced. "The Graphic in its first year would have considered this news not fit to print." Laments McKelway: "Gossip-writing is at present like a spirochete in the body...
...British, who think they like nothing that is not staid and conservative, rise to colorful leadership as enthusiastically as any other people. Since May 10 Churchill has proved himself a superb showman, has popped up photogenically with his cherubic face on as many scenes and occasions as Eleanor Roosevelt or Mayor LaGuardia...
...there was no time to lose. Mr. Willkie rolled up his sleeves. Business already knew him as a supersalesman; politics was soon to find it out. He made a speech to well-scrubbed Philadelphia Main Liners at the staid Academy of Music. He ordered fried chicken for G. 0. P. Negroes. He invited himself to a caucus of Kansans, had breakfast with Candidate James's hog-tied Pennsylvanians, and began raiding every delegation in sight, loose or tied...