Over a 14-year stint at the Sunday Times he had turned a staid, class-bound broad-sheet into a compelling, dramatic newspaper with-a first for Britain-a glossy colour magazine.
In London, we appear to be struggling to hold on to the less whiz bang, more, you know, staid and sensible oil companies and building materials companies.
For, what would staid British responsibility and respectability have said to orange-trees in boxes in a Bank courtyard, and even to a Cupid over the counter?
I staid three months in this country, out of perfect obedience to his majesty; who was pleased highly to favour me, and made me very honourable offers.
The staid business men of Pittsburgh early regarded Carnegie with disfavor; his daring impressed them as rashness and his bold adventures as the plunging of the speculator.