Word: staid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...counters with a real-life Santa who descends a wooden chimney every 15 minutes, talks through a microphone to the kids on the street, and-of course-invites everyone inside. Even the minor squares are dressed to the nines. The graceful Pulitzer Memorial fountain in front of the staid Plaza Hotel and Bergdorf Goodman's sparkles as if electricity were going out of style tomorrow...
...travels or is as signed abroad these days will likely be dismayed to discover that it costs more to visit or live in a foreign city than ever before. Such is the verdict of the annual survey of 23 cities around the world conducted by London's staid Financial Times. The Times reports that the basic cost of food, clothing, lodging and entertaining has gone up almost everywhere-and suggests a few dos and don'ts for the savvy...
...located in the Strand, the club is so popular that it is booked solid on weekends through New Year's. The most extraordinary fact about it, however, is its owner: London's J. Lyons & Co., Ltd., known to Britons for years as the conservative proprietor of 170 staid, gold-and-white-fronted teahouses scattered through their country...
...Cathedral. The journey ended at Fifth Avenue's St. Patrick's Cathedral. As the Pope entered the great grey church, 3,500 invited guests welcomed him with a roof-raising hosanna of cheers and applause, a response never heard before in the cathedral's staid confines. Moist-eyed at the greeting, Paul prayed briefly before the high altar; a chorus intoned the traditional Tu Es Petrus (Thou Art Peter). In response to Francis Cardinal Spellman's welcome, Paul reiterated the purpose of his mission and asked "for your prayerful support of our message of peace." Then...
Leary is a surprisingly staid fellow and doubtless disappointed many in his hip audience last Thursday night at PBH. His one concession to that sensibility was an outrageous amoeboid tie, but his tweediness in other respects would have endeared him to any Clubbie, had there been one in attendance. Close-up, Leary looks a little punchy, especially his eyes and nose, but there is certainly no indication of it when he speaks. Inclined to diffidence until he senses some empathy on the part of his questioner, Leary seized the first opportunity to let me know that our "interviewer-victim relationship...