Word: staidly
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Bowing to the apparently inevitable, and comforted by the assurance of her own financial and political solidity, staid England has resigned herself to an impending interlude of Labor government. But it is evident that the rule of these heretofore political pariahs is being tolerated only as an interlude, to serve perhaps as a horrible example which will frighten the more conservative elements of the other two parties into a firm and workable coalition...
...ordinary bookcase, the in habitants thereof may be subjected to inconceivable indignities. Imagine the reaction of a prim and high-minded Victorian romance forced to rub Covers with Jurgen. What would be the feelings of Speare and Fitz gerald, twin apostles of gin and kisses, separated by the staid blue covers of Mr. Gundelfinger's uproarious Ten Years at Yale...
...Police Force calls in Rafael Schermann, famous Polish "psycho-graphologist" to help him solve the enigmatic Elwell case. Verily, truth is stranger than fiction! Thirty odd years ago, every one regarded Sherlock Holmes, the scientific detective, as a type to be found only in fiction, while today such a staid and sober journal as the "New York Times" prints with great solemnity Mr. Schermann's revelations as to the mysterious "Marjorie...
...audiences. Having formed through many years of observation a theory that Americans feast delicately upon quiet and refined concoctions, what was his consternation to find that, after all, the Grand Guignol players must serve highly spiced preparations to attract a crowd. Moreover, he is struck by the oddity that staid American audiences "run wild" in Paris by going to see the somewhat strong repertoire which the Grand Guignol presents there...
Paul Whiteman has been taken up by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. The jazz artist, a big, heavy fellow, stands a foot or so above the Prince, but this disharmony in sizes has not prevented a cordial fellowship. This is quite in line with the none too staid disposition of the heir to the British crown, a disposition which is said to distress and shock the great decorum of the royalty, aristocracy, middle class and working class of England...