Word: staidness
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...Manhattan's staid Hotel Plaza, veteran Cinemactress-TV Comedienne Ann (Private Secretary) Sothern, 47, perplexed by billows of smoke that rolled from the fireless fireplace of her 14th-floor suite, opened her windows and sounded the alarm. Firemen appeared, then rushed down twelve stories to learn that a guest in a second-floor apartment, after igniting some logs in its fireplace, doused them on observing that the flue was all but clogged. The absent tenant of the lower suite: Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright, 87, a great fireplace fancier, who has also been known to prohibit smoking by people...
...Vatican bobbled the dialectic ball again. That the staid St. Bernardino of Siena should be the patron saint of advertisers [Feb. 4] and bandied about by the mass-media Babbitts is unforgivable. Our blatant and vulgar advertising is the one crack in our picture window that anti-Americans point to as our literary output. Madison Avenue's grey flannel mouthings could never wear Bernardino's hair shirt...
...irregularities in the ordinarily staid Freshman Jubilee elections have resulted in a committee of 13 members instead of the customary ten. A tie forced the election of 11 candidates; and despite a relatively light write-in vote, Lamont Dupont and Oliver A. Yabook were appointed ex-officio members...
...Europeans James told of two elegantly hard-up Continental worldlings-a baroness and her brother-who descend in a fortune-seeking mood on their rich, staid, starched Boston kinfolk. Light, bright, "easy" James, the book is less a comedy of intrigue than of attitudes, of dull innocents shocked by Europe and gay intriguers stupefied by Boston...
...Three. Wall Street looked into Kreuger's hypnotic, ice-blue eyes and found that it could not resist this charmer. The staid and honorable banking firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. begged to be his broker and soon bore him a bouncing new corporation, International Match. Kreuger promptly convinced the directors, among them Percy Rockefeller, nephew of John D., that the millions raised from this and subsequent flotations should be deposited by him with a European subsidiary, to "avoid taxes." Kreuger, in turn, would mail back the dividends, some of them as handsome...