Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bumbling, Mr. Chips style, Donat plays the idealistic inventor with a good deal of warmth and wit. Best sequence: Friese-Greene excitedly demonstrating his newly perfected magic box by projecting flickering Hyde Park scenes in his laboratory in the dead of night to an audience of one: a stolid, bewildered London bobby, pungently played by Laurence Olivier...
...Hague, Drees ascended the ladder to power, reform by reform-always carefully administered, of course, and with a thrifty eye on the budget. In World War II, Drees was imprisoned in Buchenwald for a year, then served as a member of the underground directorate which the Dutch, with stolid inspiration, called the Board of Reliable...
...meeting of Communist functionaries in Mukden recently, a stolid, square-faced Communist named Kao Kang, one of the most powerful men in Asia, made one of his frequent harangues to party functionaries. "We . . . are in the front line," he told his lieutenants. "We must make sacrifices...
...less dramatic undertakings in his four years as President. It is, as the author admits, "a text composed mostly of grim economics"-postwar reconstruction, reclamation, foreign loans, disarmament negotiations, labor relations, child welfare and a myriad of other projects of whose origins and achievements the ex-President writes with stolid earnestness. But the book has its sprightly surprises and rewarding glimpses of men and problems as Herbert Hoover saw them...
...fabrics to the world's theaters for more than a century, Dazian's Inc. is seldom surprised when strange uses are discovered for its merchandise. When its twisted metallic streamers, designed to decorate theater marquees, blossomed on the nation's highways as filling-station art, the stolid firm took it as a matter of course. Then a Middle Western mechanic reported that for the first time he was able to harvest a full crop from the strawberry patch next to his filling station. He gave all the credit to sunlight glinting off the bright streamers and frightening...