Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...production, Stage Director Vladimir Rosing and Designer H. A. Condell had succeeded in getting up some colorful pageantry; three Gilbert & Sullivan types named Ping, Pang anu Pong, the emperor's ministers, did their best to give the opera some comic relief; and Soprano Martinis sang her stony and stolid role with a voice that was as strong, hard and cold as a wire cable. The chill was hardly her fault: singing her first Turandot, she found the part "so cold-really musicless...
...Morning Coat to Shirtsleeves. All week the Socialists tried to prove that the Liberal fears were justified; in so doing, they showed the world another, little-known side of the Belgian temper. At times, stolid sensible Brussels seemed more like the "Red belt" of Paris or a riot-torn Italian piazza...
...Blood. Unlike them, Abraham L. Pomerantz, Gubichev's lawyer, battled hard for his client. The substance of his defense: the stolid Russian, a $6,050-a-year engineer for the U.N., had not kept his Manhattan trysts with Judy to receive state secrets from her, but only to express his "hot-blooded" love. But when the jury came in, after 19 hours and 10 minutes, its foreman announced that the verdict for both defendants was: "Guilty...
...cartel-minded Britain, stolid, well-nosed Lord McGowan, 75-year-old chairman of the billion-dollar, globe-girdling Imperial Chemicals Industries, Ltd., has long been the staunchest champion of gentlemanly agreements which divide the world's markets. But this week. Lord McGowan reversed his field. Imperial Chemicals announced that it would invade the U.S. markets of its great & good friends, Wilmington's E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
Along the 30-mile jungle track from the airfield to 300-year-old Paramaribo, he was hailed by ragged Negroes, Indians, white-scarved East Indians, stolid Dutch farmers and Javanese women in bright-colored, close-fitting sarongs. In the steaming riverbank capital, workers had poured sand into the biggest puddles in the unpaved streets. Dutch flags and orange banners hung from the front of the green-shuttered, two-story wood Parliament building. As Bernhard drove up, a band played the Dutch anthem, then broke into Surinam's own anthem, outlawed until The Hague granted the colony self-government last...