Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stolid unionists' battle on this basic issue lasted six days, a good part behind closed doors in the resolutions committee room. Lined up for the industrial union were hulking, square-faced John Llewellyn Lewis of United Mine Workers and tall, persuasive Charles P. Howard of the International Typographical Union. Opponents of committing A. F. of L. to vertically were President William Green, a quiet-spoken reactionary, and Matthew Woll, an overdressed, Red-hating A. F. of L. vice president...
...claim put forth by administration supporters that the opposition party has nothing to offer place of the New Deal policies is admittedly true. To go further left is hardly possible, the stolid attitude of the twenties is thoroughly discredited, and the present administration has stolen most of the thunder of the reform and regulation advocates. Administration extravagance, despite the clamor raised about it, is a poor basis for a platform under present conditions...
Because of the publicity police were loath to "rubber-hose" Prisoner Hauptmann's story out of him. But the gentler method of keeping him awake, nagging him with questions for 48 hours brought small results. The stolid, 35-year-old Teuton soon closed his mouth tight. His shocked wife Anna, who apparently knew nothing of her husband's finances, got him a lawyer, but Hauptmann refused to see him. Then she got him another...
...lively Negro romp, noisy and syncopated as some white folks believe all black worship should be. Last week for the first time Elder Michaux took his choir of 40 and his jazz orchestra of ten out of Washington to capitalize their fame. For his first appearance he chose stolid Philadelphia...
...Angriff, personal organ of ecstatic Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Paul Josef Goebbels. last week found a new villain to hiss at-the stolid, pedantic Press of Switzerland. ''The Swiss newspapers," roared Der Angriff, "are read only by those in Germany who have already emigrated in spirit and would emigrate in the flesh for good business. And if occasionally they do report something that is correct, that something is known to the competent political authorities much earlier. If it is something unpleasant, that also does not excite us. No states and no peoples consist of cherubs and seraphs...