Word: staidly
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Heliotropic Washington bends toward Senator Harding, and the staid Senate is fluttered. Never before has a President been selected from its membership, and its experts on procedure thumb in vain the records to get instruction as to the proper sort of reception...
...long time followers of football have keenly felt this desire. Especially is this the case with fans in the west who object rather strenuously to their fellow fans of the east resting all too complacently on the fallacious assumption that because their teams do represent the staid old east they play the superior brand of football. Fans in the west have for some time now quite strenuously objected to this unwarranted supposition, and deny that there is any sound basis for it until it is proven in actual play on the gridiron...
...Burroughs are a thoroughly conventional, conservative English family, living in the small, staid town of Knotley ("on-Thames," undoubtedly). Their irreproachable existence is rudely disturbed one afternoon by the return of William, the Black Sheep; or, as William aptly characterizes himself, "I'm the family skeleton; can't you hear my bones rattle?" Unable to abide the domineering influence of his father or his interminable demands for "an explanation" of each wayward act, William had fled to America fifteen years before; now he fails to find the fatted calf awaiting--in fact he receives a decidedly frosty welcome from...
...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...