steady-going
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Impartial House observers rate him thus: A steady-going unimaginative legislator, he possesses qualities which regular Republicans consider sterling.
From Time Magazine Archive
But New Jersey's steady-going Governor Charles Edison put a stop to that.
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
Impartial House observers rate him thus: a steady-going unimaginative partisan plodder, thoroughly conservative in his fiscal policies.
From Time Magazine Archive
His steady-going career had been laurelled with place and honours, and in Echo he had found compensation for the empty and the missed.
From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie
