Word: staidly
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...Miss Brewster's Millions" does affect one. At least it affects staid Cantabridgians who invade the gilded realms of alabaster cherubims and sera--so forth and so long enough to wonder why garlic never loses its saver and to smile, laugh, weep at the perils and pleasures of Bebe Daniels of the Enterprise Productions and a pleasant, very pleasant smile...
...college up Brattle is broadening. I saw many a maid, and none of them staid, when I visited the Splendid Georgian on my return from the Idlers' mid-winter or early spring or whatsoever production--and they came from Radcliffe. I know because they had escorts and ate very little. The usual female occupant at the evening tables at the Georgian eats very much. "Say, I guess I'll have a chicken salad sanwidge--Yeah, coffee."' No, you can't fill the poor working girl. Yes, I was surprised to see so many young college women in the place...
...four acts and the last two rouse themselves remarkably. You find out just what happened to the wife's lover and to the husband's mistress and to their various children. You see it is French, and very little has apparently been done to ease the shock on staid Manhattan nerves. So staid, indeed, are these nerves that the shock will perhaps pass unnoticed. Embers is not a spectacular show; it is just a pretty good Paris problem, more picturesquely solved than usual...
Troublesome to presidents, party lines, and the general public, the United States Senate, nevertheless, has a history which is glamorous even if staid. Under the somewhat affectionate pen of Edward G. Lowry writing in the February "Century", its romance assumes a splendor too alluring to be lost. For, although truckling at times to corporate interest and again to more varied sectional economic wishes, the Senate has prized beyond all intrigue its independence...
...Sport of Kings" deals with a wager between two young men that they can persuade a staid and sober friend to ten on a horse race...