Word: staid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...amiable protest, for, like nearly every other Hollander, the mayor of Katwijk was in high holiday mood. For seven days last week, stolid shopkeepers and sturdy burghers from Friesland to Limburg, from Gelderland to the sea put by their staid reserve to celebrate a golden jubilee and say farewell to a Queen and a friend. In medieval Utrecht parading clowns made boisterous sport of laughing huisvrouwen. In southern 's Hertogenbosch ragamuffin children romped through the streets in false faces...
...Balloons Wanted. There was not much fun for delegates in staid Ottawa. Although there was plenty of rye in hotel rooms, not even beer could be bought in the convention cafeteria. Young Liberals did without balloons at their dance because Mr. King disapproved. Out at the Experimental Farm, there was a garden party at which the old (73) Mr. King played host, shook a thousand hands and stuffed cakes into his mouth five times for the photographers...
...Staid Baldwin Locomotive Co. had dozed at the switch. Once it made nearly half of all U.S. locomotives, but in the last five years its share of business has dropped to less than 10%. Unwilling to concede that diesels were revolutionizing the locomotive business (TIME, Dec. 29), Baldwin concentrated on making steam engines while such upstarts as General Motors' Electro-Motive Division grabbed the lion's share of new orders...
...judge by its content, the typical British reader of the weekly Spectator is a staid, orderly man who carries an umbrella on threatening days, and whose wife has the vicar to tea in the garden. He is likely to say "verb. sap." when he means "a word to the wise," and if he says, "I rather think I shall go sailing tomorrow, D.V.," everyone knows that he means "Deo volente" (God willing...