steady-going
Example Sentences
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Thus, at London last week, famed "militant suffragette" Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, now a venerable steady-going matron, reminisced to newsgatherers.
From Time Magazine Archive
But New Jersey's steady-going Governor Charles Edison put a stop to that.
From Time Magazine Archive
Throughout most of a typical performance, the English rock quartet called The Who live up to their own modest billing: "A good, steady-going, down-to-earth pop group."
From Time Magazine Archive
Fourteen years ago he quit the New York Sun, on which he had been a steady-going "wheelhorse" reporter of the Frank Ward O'Malley period, to work for Publicist Lee.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cow gentleman first selects a quick yet steady-going mule; then he looks for a dead steer.
From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson
