Word: staidness
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...tunnels themselves are fairly high and well lighted, and even the most staid observer would be forgiven a pardonable desire to be turned loose here underground with a Jeep. Only the passage of a occasional food cart breaks the cool silence of the tunnels, although several hundred unwitting students may be tramping overhead...
...nation at war, Holmes has eloquent things to say. He was no stranger to war. Walking down Boston's staid Beacon Street one afternoon in 1861, with his eyes glued to the pages of Hobbes's Leviathan which he had just borrowed from the Athenaeum, he felt a touch on his shoulder. "Holmes," a friend said, "you've got your first lieutenant's commission in the Twentieth." Holmes returned the copy of Leviathan, went off to war and a wound in the throat at Antietam. "As he grew older," writes Biddle, "the thought of war came...
Said the usually staid Morning Post: "Sir Stafford Cripps, known abroad as Sir Scrapps, among his friends as Scrappy, among his opponents as Stiffy, and among an ungrateful proletariat as Gripes, is an embryo-dictator...
Ever since suave Cosmo Gordon Lang retired from the see of Canterbury last spring, Britons have become increasingly aware that their traditionally staid and conservative Church of England is now headed by a pair of Christian revolutionaries. Last week both of these Anglican prelates-joke-loving William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, and hike-loving Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York and Primate of England-got up on the same platform in smoky Birmingham and spoke words that put the Church on the side of Socialism, if not of revolution...
This cast manages to shatter the traditional aloofness of Boston audiences. Every time Manningham tries to strangle his wife and is foiled by the entrance of Sergeant Rough, a lengthy sigh rises from the orchestra and the balconies. At several points the staid Bostonians booed the villain and shouted directions at the hero...