Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intended as a criticism of our writing, but only as an encyclopedic dictionary for it, the "Oxford Companion to American Literature" is the result of the gargantuan labors of one man--James D. Hart. And although he spent five years on the subject, the book is by no means stolid or ponderous. It contains many relatively obscure and unusual facts which make the book intriguing to while away a few odd minutes as well as to answer some question which arises during other reading. The following entry is typical of many...
...Major W. S. Murdoch painted a cheery picture. "Crowds of people rushed towards us along the streets leading from the beach -men, women and children all talking and laughing at once, dogs leaping and barking around them. . . . The locals, madly excited (I always thought the Russians were a stolid race) and continuously laughing, were pressing gifts of chocolates and cigarets...
Thus last week did courage and hunger and smoldering resentment make significant news on the Continent. Down the narrow coast of stolid Norway, across the North Sea to the surly Low Countries and France, eastward through new-but-not-orderly Central Europe, and deep into the vitals of the sultry Balkans, something important was stirring. It was a wave of sabotage and active resistance to the conqueror on a scale heretofore unknown in World...
...column By the Way, Bill Henry is not scintillating. But in Los Angeles everybody likes Bill and looks kindly on his stolid prose...
...week to tell his constituents what he thought about the war, before heading back to Washington. He started his campaign on July 3 at Cannon Falls, in the rich, rolling farmland of southeastern Minnesota. The crowd at the fair grounds, mostly slow-spoken, slow-thinking Scandinavian farmers, was stolid and quiet, but attentive. It was the same story next afternoon at Elbow Lake, when Joe Ball went on right after the hog-calling contest...