Word: staidness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico, which traditionally goes in for magnetic types as political leaders, Ruiz Cortines is quite a change. A staid and decorous little man with an ingrained aversion to personal publicity, he has none of his predecessor's razzle-dazzle or zest for gay Acapulco yachting parties. His favorite form of relaxation is playing dominos. Even the most cynical Mexicans acknowledge his honesty. "I was poor as a boy, and I still am," he said during the campaign...
...proclamation aroused a storm of protest throughout the country. "Let Locarno fall and the League of Nations perish," cried the usually staid New York Times, "but the Big Three must and shall be preserved." Even the bad boy of the whole affair, Lampy, upon seing the results of his work broke down and apologized. But outside of the IC4A track meet Harvard and Princeton did not meet again that year...
Even the usually staid Advocate got into trouble. Although the post office declared its parody of "Dial" was mail-able, Boston still banned it. A nude man, line drawings and obscene Jokes provoked Municipal Court Judge John Duff to say. "Not in years has more indecent literature' been placed on sale in Boston. Even the Holy Bible did not escape their perverted brains...
Since that effort, the College has settled down to more staid Pogo riots, but in the past week other schools have taken up the newest college fad as the perfect outlet for blowing off pre-exam steam...
Yale started up a team two years ago, and a match which the Crimson played against them last May was written up by B.B.C. correspondent Allstair Cooke in Britain's staid national daily, the "Manchester Guardian...