Word: staid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lavender Hill Mob. Alec Guinness in a bright British farce-comedy about a staid bank employee who satisfies the inner criminal yearnings of a lifetime (TIME...
...such newspaper melodramas as Five Star Final (1931) and Gentlemen of the Press (1929). Reporter John Derek never takes off his hat, scoops not only the opposition but also the cops; ruthless Editor Broderick Crawford prints anything to get a rise out of his circulation. Together they turn a staid Manhattan daily (U.S. election headline: MR. DEWEY DEFEATED) into a rag that thrives on blood, cheesecake and tears...
...taking off their shoes. Like all other giveaway shows, Potluck has a studio audience, a thigh-slapping announcer, a full catalogue of physical and spiritual indignities for its contestants. The remarkable thing about it: Potluck is the first giveaway show to appear on the British Broadcasting Corp.'s staid television...
After a long round of applause from the standing spectators, Nixon began by commenting on the crowd's enthusiasm. "Talk about staid old Boston," he said, "well, you have the answer to that, and you'll have the answer in "52!" (thunderous applause...
Ruiz Cortínez is a staid standard-bearer for Mexico's "revolutionary" party. He hates publicity, speaks rarely, lives modestly in one of the capital's more conservative neighborhoods. His favorite relaxation is playing dominoes. After thirteen years in the revolutionary army without rising above the rank of major and eleven years in government bureaus without rising above the rank of clerk, he joined young Mike Alemán and rode the escalator right behind him-first to the governorship of his native Veracruz, then to the Ministry of Interior, the job from which Alem...