Word: staid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...irregularities in the ordinarily staid Freshman Jubilee elections have resulted in a committee of 13 members instead of the customary ten. A tie forced the election of 11 candidates; and despite a relatively light write-in vote, Lamont Dupont and Oliver A. Yabook were appointed ex-officio members...
...Europeans James told of two elegantly hard-up Continental worldlings-a baroness and her brother-who descend in a fortune-seeking mood on their rich, staid, starched Boston kinfolk. Light, bright, "easy" James, the book is less a comedy of intrigue than of attitudes, of dull innocents shocked by Europe and gay intriguers stupefied by Boston...
...Three. Wall Street looked into Kreuger's hypnotic, ice-blue eyes and found that it could not resist this charmer. The staid and honorable banking firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. begged to be his broker and soon bore him a bouncing new corporation, International Match. Kreuger promptly convinced the directors, among them Percy Rockefeller, nephew of John D., that the millions raised from this and subsequent flotations should be deposited by him with a European subsidiary, to "avoid taxes." Kreuger, in turn, would mail back the dividends, some of them as handsome...
Origin of Specious. In London, in the name of the staid Lord's Day Observance Society, hoaxers sent out calendars with pictures of sketchily clad young women and a verse under the January pinup...
...founded in Cleveland in 1873. One of the early service magazines, it was loaded with helpful hints and departments ranging from Mother's Corner to Flowers, Care and Culture. Companion also carried serials by such women writers as Edna Ferber and Willa Gather. In recent years the staid Companion had lost ground to such rivals as Ladies' Home Journal, Good Housekeeping and McCall...