Word: staid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, 21 years less one month after the massacre of Amritsar, an elderly audience of 200 men and women, mostly retired Indian civil servants and their wives, attended at London's Caxton Hall a staid lecture by Sir Percy Sykes of the Royal Central Asian Society. Subject: Afghanistan: The Present Situation...
Though the Argentine Government sent only the work of prize winners, the show is no tame academic display, spans schools from staid classicism to surrealism. Argentine artists have absorbed European techniques, put them to lively local use. Best section is the prints. Argentine print-makers are good hewers of woodcuts and drawers of water colors...
...York City and all over the East. However, last year he decided to get rid of the "English drawing-room" name that his band acquired and adopt swing. What the management thought would never happen, did: "Low-down Rhythm In A Tophat" was an instanteous success at the staid Rainbow Room. Enough so that Donahue made his decision to leave the pastures of the broad A forevermore...
Outside a staid brick building on Manhattan's staid Murray Hill last week an Alexander Calder mobile* gyred and gimbled in the breeze. A frank hybrid, sporting a trio of abstract forms atop a classical column, it symbolized the hybrid show inside (at the headquarters of the Architectural League of New York). The show's title: "Versus." Its subject: the rival claims of traditional and modernist architecture...
Until six months ago Lake County had just one staid, old newspaper, the Waukegan News-Sun. Publisher Frank H. Just, bald, stern and 71, has been a newspaper man for 43 years, and a lifelong foe of gambling...