steady-going
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But New Jersey's steady-going Governor Charles Edison put a stop to that.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week he acted up, scandalized most of his steady-going countrymen.
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
Impartial House observers rate him thus: a steady-going unimaginative partisan plodder, thoroughly conservative in his fiscal policies.
From Time Magazine Archive
What a mistake he had made in living with the fast, noisy lot instead of the steady-going set, who were just as good fellows after all.
From Luck at the Diamond Fields by Belgrave, Dalrymple J.
