Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jealous; sometimes vindictive; more or less dull in outward appearance; always needing stimulants." Grant was an easygoing, touchy, unimpressive soldier in his early career, later a devoted family man who failed with an almost uncanny thoroughness as a farmer, rent collector, store clerk, before he blossomed as the stolid genius of the Civil War. An essentially honest man who labored in terrible agony to pay his personal debts. Grant became identified with the most scandalous corruption that ever touched a President. His administrations are remembered less for their legislative measures than for the magnitude of their swindles. President Grant...
...future of the whole U. S. Rival firms which have been industriously collecting business scattered by New Deal legislation were not so pleased, and stock in First Boston Corp., currently the leading U. S. investment bankers, dropped $4 per share on the announcement. But the stanch and stolid New York Herald Tribune burgeoned with a lead editorial, rumbling heartily: "Few more pleasing news items have come out of Wall Street in recent years than this . . . announcement that the long and honorable tradition of the House of Morgan in the field of investment banking is to be perpetuated through...
Forty years ago Detective Cornish, a stolid, hard-working country boy, entered Scotland Yard, trained for three weeks before being sent out to the dives and alleys of crime-ridden Whitechapel. There was no romance, little excitement about the first murder case on which he worked: two thugs killed foolish little Emily Farmer while robbing her tobacco shop, were discovered after a systematic check of all suspicious characters in the neighborhood...
...past four months, stolid Bruno Richard Hauptmann has sat in the death house of the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton. Convicted of murdering Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the German carpenter from The Bronx has busied himself writing his autobiography. Twenty-three times has he been visited by his loyal, horse-faced wife Anna, who, affecting more modish dress since the Flemington trial, has traveled 6,000 miles, collected $8,300 for her husband's defense. Towheaded Baby Mannfried, an occasional visitor to his father's cell in Flemington, has not been admitted to the death house. Hauptmann...
...Argentina and bigger Brazil have been exchanging goodwill visits for a year. Last fortnight Brazil's Getulio Dornelles Vargas called on Argentina's Agustin P. Justo (TIME, June 3). Last week Vargas went on to Montevideo, with his wife & daughter, to visit Uruguay's smart, stolid President Gabriel Terra, who runs a firm dictatorship over the most up-&-coming people in South America...