Word: staid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late 19303 the club sounded one of the first alarms against shipment of U.S. scrap iron to Japan; in 1938 it dramatically began picketing Japanese ships loading scrap on the Seattle waterfront. Recalls Harley: "The staid gentlemen in our membership walked side by side with left-wing fringe groups who happened to be taking the same position at the time...
...Friends Only. The craving for the "don't-give-a-damn" pills is not confined to Hollywood. In staid Boston the demand is as keen, but less shrill. It is the same in New York City, Washington...
...Then he quit a Pennsylvania advertising job and bought Bermuda's Swizzle Inn, a rum-punch spot, later added a nightclub called Angel's Grotto. The genteel ginmill business put him in contact with Manhattan cafe society and entertainment types, and he began spending less time with staid Bermudians, more with exciting Americans. By last December his wife had divorced him; he had been named corespondent in a divorce suit, and was dating Royce Wallace, caramel-skinned veteran of seven Broadway shows and Manhattan hotspots who had flown in to sing at the Grotto. On Christmas...
...Americans caused a near riot them selves on their second night in town when they staged Russia's first jam session at the staid Astoria Hotel. As one member of the cast put it: "The band was doing up Cherokee. It was strictly from the cob. Man, it was square! Lorenzo Fuller [an alternate Sportin' Life] decided to go scalp the piano. Ned Wright [Robbins] felt the spirit striving and took everybody to the sunny side of the street . . . One of the Russian cats got the spirit and did a buck and wing routine that flipped everybody...
...creative may contrast strangely with an intense interest in varsity basketball and football, but for Albert J. Guerard, 41-year-old professor of English, the contrast is merely one of many that fill both his career and his personality. A Californian who wears a checked jacket but carries a staid green book bag, an American with an intimate knowledge of the wartime French underground, and a writer of fiction who also is a critic of writers, Guerard humorously regards himself as a "controlled schizophrenic...