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...Thompson's Spa, Inc. (established 1882) in Boston, things seldom change. The original Washington Street restaurant has never moved from its site in a dingy brick building opposite the equally venerable Boston Globe. Many a staid Bostonian (like onetime customer Calvin Coolidge) has eaten his fish chowder and apple pie a»; che same counter for 30 years, served every day by the same waitress...
...noon each day most of the kids were sitting with their legs dangling over the lapping River Liffey or ranged in ranks on the steps of staid Georgian houses in the professional district, peaceably munching sandwich lunches...
...Dolorism. The first 5,000-copy issue of its melancholy bible, La Revue Doloriste, sold in Paris last week like gargles in wintertime London. The cult of sorrow and misery even took the spotlight from Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialists (TIME, Jan. 28), as staid Figaro gave it tongue-in-cheek recognition: "No school ever chose its hour better than this one. Every French citizen is an unknowing Dolorist.And Monsieur Gouin [France's Premier], perhaps, is also...
Stocky, blondish Carl J. Friedrich, government professor and expert on public opinion and prrroppagahnda, tried to make practice fit preaching when he managed fellow-teacher Charles R. Cherington's high-powered campaign for election to the school committee inn staid, tradition-bound Concord recently...
...years ago, the Service News showed that a picture billed with seductive hoopla by the Gaiety Theatre on Washington Street was really just the old (1939) Elsa Maxwell hit, "Hotel For Women," a staid enough piece by even Watch and Ward standards. While its policy is less consistent and less, salacious, the Majestic Theatre, too, is currently deceiving its audiences, though it isn't trying to get away with anything...