Word: stolidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trying matter of accents in an American production: the lead characters ought to agree on a degree of approximation to the Queen's English and on a pronunciation of Bolingbroke. Otherwise, the Loeb has poured its professional competence freely: there is much swordplay, adequately trained; Donald Soule's stolid set suits the play superbly; the devices on shields are undoubtedly authentic; perfectionists designed the costumes. Not much less, it must be admitted, should surround this Falstaff...
Fighting as a light heavyweight at 178 lbs., he knocked out a befuddled Belgian, flicked past a stolid Russian, an Australian and a Pole. "I didn't take that gold medal off for 48 hours," he says. "I even wore it to bed. I didn't sleep too good because I had to sleep on my back so the medal wouldn't cut me. But I didn't care. I was the Olympic champion...
...bachelor, he tells everyone that he has a wife and six sickly children. The other is the unnamed Assistant Commissioner, an old jungle hand stiff with integrity and old wounds and hated by his underlings at Scotland Yard. He is a magnificent Greene hero who pursues criminals with stolid skill, shutting away the unhappy knowledge that his quarries receive justice only accidentally...
Nicklaus acted as if he had cotton in his ears. He had played with Palmer during the first two rounds of the tournament, and he was used to Arnie's Army. As a matter of fact, the bigger Palmer's gallery, the better stolid Jack Nicklaus liked it. "Arnie always draws the big gallery wherever he goes," he said. "And a big gallery around the green is the biggest advantage a player can have. If you miss the green, you know the ball isn't going very far. The people just can't step...
...Amsterdam Exchange maintained the appearance of stolid Dutch calm so well that in the midst of a sell-off that sent Philips Lamp plummeting from $205 to $185, a tourist wandered onto the floor under the impression that he was in a museum...