Word: staidness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usually staid and cynical press box went completely mad when Gordy Lyle caught Jack Comeford's pass . . . Vern Miller, last year's left tackle and now a columnist on the Boston Globe, was so excited that he nearly fell off his perch which was precarious at best...
Most of the hotels thus taken over for government use are in such pleasure centers as Miami Beach (150) and Atlantic City (44) but some are downtown landmarks such as the Stevens and the Congress in Chicago, the Empire in San Francisco (bought for Treasury Department offices), the staid old Victoria in Boston, now being made shipshape for the WAVES. Some have been bought outright, others leased for the duration...
...sighed with content. His Ballet Theatre had just opened Manhattan's annual ballet season at the Metropolitan Opera House. His Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was to join it a week later at the same stand. While balletomanes roared approval in accents as thick as borsch, more staid Manhattanites took stock of the first of five brand-new ballet productions, mooned nostalgically over such puff-skirted favorites as Swan Lake and Sylphides, such latter-day spectacles as Petrouchka and Bluebeard...
...contemporary publishing has been a cadaverous onetime pulp writer named Joseph Hilton Smyth. Four years ago he suddenly emerged from Greenwich Village obscurity, bought the venerable magazines Living Age and North American Review. Then he bought into Current History. Before long he bought a good slice of the staid Saturday Review of Literature. He also founded a weekly newsletter called The Foreign Observer, a press service called the Negro News Syndicate...
...went mad. Buses were so jammed that sometimes drivers had to threaten unruly crowds with wrenches in order to make them let passengers out. Decent bars became clamorous dives. Honest citizens dared not let their daughters go out after dark. More policemen were hired but holdups and disorders mounted. Staid, tradition-loving Geneva felt its life was ruined. Everybody was miserable...