Word: staidness
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When wife Carmen, who was a solo dancer for the Metropolitan Opera ballet, became pregnant, Holder filled in for her, shook the house to its staid foundations when he appeared in a white bikini...
...Louis also had a hidden asset: a man named Raymond Roche Tucker. Fourth-generation St. Louisan Ray Tucker, now 60, was raised on the staid, comfortably middle-class South Side, attended both public and parochial schools, scholarshiped his way through St. Louis University ('17). Set on a teaching career, he went on to Washington University for a B.S. in mechanical engineering, got it in 1920, was rewarded with a post on the engineering faculty...
...race was lost, but Rod Carnegie's Revolution had not really failed. It had jolted the staid foundation of British rowing, which has won few honors since World War II. Carrying one crewman as almost deadweight cargo, Oxford's American-style stroke had done so well it could no longer be ignored...
...Newhouse's staid Oregonian -a comfortable, conservative newspaper that is normally inclined to sit back and rock on Portland's front porch-it was a tough and hazardous story. Judged by his police record, Racket Boss Elkins was, at best, an impeachable source. The villains in Elkins' story were not men to meddle with lightly-a Teamster organizer and ex-convict, as well as Multnomah County District Attorney William Langley and Sheriff (now Mayor) Terry Schrunk, both Teamster protégés. After listening to 70 hours of conversations between the key figures, tape-recorded...
During rehearsals, when Producer Prawy replaced ten of his orchestra's staid members-despite their civil-service status-with ten brass players from a leading swing band, he provoked manifestos and a protest meeting. Passions were further inflamed when the news spread that leading male roles were cast with distinguished opera singers-rising Baritone Eberhard Wächter as Frank Butler; Karl Dönch, famed for his Beckmesser, as Chief Sitting Bull; Tenor Max Lorenz, a renowned Siegfried, as Buffalo Bill. After a rehearsal, onetime Metropolitan Soprano Brenda Lewis, the Annie Oakley and only American in a cast...