Word: staid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heiskell's tolerance also permits a daily column in the staid Gazette by Hardy ("Spider") Rowland, a cigar-chomping, self-confessed sinner who used to run a suburban gambling house. Spider writes about his bouts with "wobble water," refers to young girls as "quails," and brags about his encounters with the law. Spider wrote in a recent column: "I attribute my outstanding ability to kiss to blowing a bugle for a couple of years with the Boy Scouts...
...problem of food at a college which has most students in residence is inevitably a stormy one. Even staid Harvard has lived through food riots, and occasional attacks of food poisoning, resulting in wide-spread student reaction. Yet, the violence of undergraduate feeling is tremendous. It is far greater than it would be if a food poisoning out-break were the sole cause. The average attitude of most men toward the Dining Hall offerings has always been somewhat hostile. So students, when presented with definite evidence of bungling, make the most of it with denunciations and action...
Cautious and Staid...
More cautious and staid in its praise, but still loaded with adjectives, was the New York Times. Allison Danzig dubbed the Crimson as "one of the cleverest, fanciest, and hardest-hitting Harvard elevens since Percy Haughton...
...staid khaki pants worn by Harvard football players for generations have now gone the way of such venerable football lore as handlebar mustaches and leather elbow patches...