Word: staidness
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Reeling under a flood of undergraduate students for the first time in its usually staid history, the Harvard Summer School ended a hectic week of registration with an estimated total of over 4000 enrollees...
...good old bedroom farce, and dug through dozens of them till he found the one he liked. He hired Playwright Cyrus Wood (Sally, Irene and Mary, Street Singer) to doctor it up, finally found an angel. The show opened in Santa Barbara in February and so outraged that staid community that the city council met. Good Night Ladies thereupon scrammed to San Francisco for a week, clicked, stayed five. When it lit out for Chicago it had already earned back its $6,000 nut, has netted a weekly $6,000 to $7,000 ever since. Rosen thinks it will...
Tonight's Jubilee with its "Battle of Music" and dancing until 3 o'clock, is a far cry from the staid and formal inter-dormitory singing contest that was the original Jubilee of 1915. The original "two-fold benefit" of education and stimulation has been at least partially corrupted...
...this was reported last week by Physiologist McGlade in the staid American Journal of Digestive Diseases...
...furthest-left primate the staid old church of England has ever had was this week promoted to the top of the ecclesiastical tree...