Word: staidly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most indignant comment came from England, where all U. S. golf innovations are disgusting to golfers who abide by the regulations of the staid St. Andrews club. Said Sandy Herd: "Farcical!" Charles Whitcombe: "Absurd!" James Braid: "The walls would crumble!" Harry Vardon: "The very idea makes me angry...
...names connected with it. Richard Strauss, the story went, would be one of its conductors, Fritz Reiner another. Max Reinhardt, Ernst Lubitsch and Robert Edmond Jones would stage its productions in up-to-date fashion. Youthful members of Society would be called upon for support instead of the staid and settled folk who sit in the boxes at the Metropolitan Opera House. Would this be the opera company to establish itself in Rockefeller Center? That was the question which no one would answer. But everyone knows that a great hole is waiting there for an opera house which in turn...
...whining insistence became irritating. John Court '35 in the role of Nick Potter gave an admirable performance and Richard Sullivan '35 did a good piece of work as the drunken and disillusioned brother. Katherine Embree was adequate if somewhat stiff as Julia Seton and Thomas Radcliffe '35 was staid enough as the father, Edward Seton. The lines, of course, are clever, and the declamation of Nick Potter during the course of the New Year's party is a triumph. On the whole the production, aside from a certain stiffness and lack of smoothness, is satisfactorily done; it might be even...
...recalls that day when a woman upset the staid order of affairs and sent the undergraduates into an uproar. There have been few more boisterous hours in Harvard's history than those between noon and 3 o'clock of November 14, 1902, when Carrie National made a whirlwind campaign to woe the student body from rum and nicotine. The Kansas hatchet-swinger, who personally broke enough whiskey bottles to arouse envy in the heart of the most rabid modern prohibition agent, stepped off the electric car that carried her from Boston to Cambridge and went straight to those claustral walls...
...policy gives particular significance to another insurance gesture, to which Dr. Wilbur referred last week. School teachers and certain other staid individuals of regular habits in Dallas, Texas each pay 50? a month to Baylor Hospital. For that premium the hospital takes care of them when they get sick. The unusual significance, apart from the novelty of the plan, is that the foremost doctor on Baylor Hospital staff is Edward Henry Gary, who next May becomes president...