steady-going
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But New Jersey's steady-going Governor Charles Edison put a stop to that.
From Time Magazine Archive
Impartial House observers rate him thus: a steady-going unimaginative partisan plodder, thoroughly conservative in his fiscal policies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just before Christmas in 1886, Harriette Flora, aged 17, married a steady-going 19-year-old Arkansas country boy named Carl Raymond Gray.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus, at London last week, famed "militant suffragette" Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, now a venerable steady-going matron, reminisced to newsgatherers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Cardwell is a dull, steady-going, respectable man, who has no pretension to anything like the rank, social influence, or even popularity of Sidney Herbert.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin
