Word: staid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which opens early in June and has continued without interruption up to the present time. The musical comedy is in three acts and seven scenes, with the twenty musical numbers, many of which have already gained much popularity. Mr. Fields, himself, is seen in the dual role of a staid business man who at night disguises himself as a young cabaret devotee in order that he may join the night life of New York. Owing to his disguises many amusing complications ensue which provide Mr. Fields with upusual opportunities for his broad field of comedy. He has been seen...
...custom of staid old age, when wearied with a continuous state of staidness, to cast aside its robes of wisdom and revel in the joyous disregard of youth. Ordinarily such unexpected return to the age of folly is diagnosed as second childhood, but when indulged in by Seniors, those omniscient swayers of destiny, it is called the Senior Spread...
...read its pages regularly for several years the Monthly, through its November issue, appears to be now clothed in a staid and homely sobriety which is at once grateful and disappointing; grateful because it speaks careful thought and meticulous expression; disappointing nevertheless, because the impression it leaves is one of somewhat ponderous mediocrity. We should gladly excuse graver faults if the aims of the magazine had been higher. One of its editors used to say to candidates, "Now go home and pour some hot tar into that story." With the exception of two very significant political utterances--Mr. Allinson...
...manuscripts tell us that in the Middle Ages students, when they had finished their studies, would congregate in open places to play games and indulge in healthful recreation. The roughness of the sports and the evident enjoyment of the participants were noted with surprise by the staid and sober chroniclers of the time, and these old scholars were inclined to shake their heads at such fruitless effort. As the games seemed to give the young men a certain mental alertness, the scribes suggested in their writings that perhaps the sports should not be forbidden...
...Hughes is far in the lead, and it is the opinion of many prominent "Old Guard" Republicans that he will be nominated on the second ballot. Governor Samuel W. McCall being one of these. There is, however, a strong undercurrent of Roosevelt feeling, and although the Convention seems unusually staid and difficult to stampede, there is sure to be a great fight tomorrow, with Senator Lodge as a probable compromise candidate. The Weeks headquarters are still confident, but it is unlikely that he will last beyond the first ballot...