Word: staid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Here, in this ghoulish little scene, is the essential horror story of our time . . . This Roman holiday in staid old Boston proves again how thin is the veneer of our Christianity...
...good old days before World War II, a cop knew where he stood, in New Rochelle, in New York's staid Westchester County. It was Suburbia for the Suburbanites then, and, except for a few rough spots, keeping the peace was a cinch. Every now & then some shady-looking characters in veils and spangles would wander into town, but a good cop would spot them quick for what they were, and run them in. As one of New Rochelle's finest explained it delicately last week: "You know, gypsies-always out to commit some larceny by theft...
...chance came when Perón was brought back to Buenos Aires' military hospital for a lung examination. Next morning, Oct. 17, 1945, some 50,000 trade unionists streamed across the bridge from the packinghouse quarter of Avellaneda. Most of the mob were coatless-a shocking sight in staid Buenos Aires-and some, even worse, were shirtless. They marched to the hospital and to the palace, ominously bellowing...
Ford said neither he nor Forbes could comment on the case because of professional courtesy. But he declared Boston is a good place for Forbes to study murder because there are "more murders even in staid Massachusetts than in all England...
...next night Harry Truman took off his Democrats' hat, picked up his social topper and escorted Bess to a full-dress reception in their honor at Washington's staid Congressional Club. There the President gave each one of the 500 guests a hearty handshake and a good word, beamed approvingly as the red-coated Marine orchestra played music from South Pacific, and took a disparaging sip of the nonalcoholic fruit punch...