Word: staidness
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...Mean City is almost more significant than the one it tells. Alexander McArthur had lost his job in Glasgow in 1929, spent the next five years writing novels based on the lives of his Gorbols neighbors. The books that he submitted to Longmans, Green were considered unpublishable by that staid publishing firm, which hired H. Kingsley Long (Limey: an Englishman Joins the Gangs) to read the manuscripts and check on the accuracy of McArthur's grim accounts. The resulting collaboration plainly shows the joints and seams of each author's contribution, with McArthur presumably providing the harsh dialog...
...numbers of sheets of paper but in pounds. From this same two page press release have grown the elaborate press headquarters in Grays Hall, the imposing press conferences in the Faculty Room of University Hall, and the influx of about two dozen newspaper men on the usually staid Yard...
This surprising state of affairs had its beginning last spring when the staid Globe-Democrat decided to have a fling at big-time circulation promotion. Scheme adopted was one invented and successfully used by the rowdy New York Post and sold for $26,167 through its Publishers' Service Co. to the provincial paper. Known as the "Famous Names" cartoon contest, the circulation-catcher presented 84 drawings, one each day, by Cartoonist Peter Arno and a daily list from which readers were to guess the correct picture title. Like most such schemes, "Famous Names" was easy at first, soon grew...
...Porter Sargent, who as advertising and employment agent, adviser and critic, sits firmly astride the far-flung world of U. S. private secondary education. Although he has not willingly set foot in a school since, upon leaving Harvard in 1896, he taught a while at Cambridge's staid Browne & Nichols, Porter Sargent ranks today as the private school industry's No. 1 lay figure. As such, he annually delivers himself in Private Schools of a long and dogmatic preface on the worldwide State of Education, includes his sprightly, if iconoclastic, views on lots of other things. Excerpts from...
15th. Lay pleasantly till 8, watching the snow "as Jove," methought, "descending from his Tower" come softly down. Thence up to draw the window but staid looking and caught a few perfect snowflakes on my gown. And Lord! How beautiful they be, Nothing in nature is unbeautiful even unto to the flake. See here a form of a star-which comes from a low cloud, I am told;-see here a tabular form-from high cloud;-see here little gems which man with all his wit could never make as beautiful. I am glad at my heart this...