Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty-two thousand San Diegoists read the Union and Tribune every day. These two papers have been and will be Republican; will try to hoist Hoover to the Presidency. But Col. Copley is no haughty, hard-to-get-to hero of the frigid rich. He is a Mason, an Elk, a Knight of Pythias...
...those people who hang their walls with mechanical reproductions of the old masters, art galleries are frigid, prices of paintings and etchings are frightening, art itself is mystifying...
...pushing his way from New York to Paris on a non-stop flight. Captain Charles A. Lindbergh in his plane. The Spirit of St. Louis, keeps alive and energetic an ancient tradition, the tradition which sent men into peaks in Darien and sends men up the frigid sides of Mt. Everest...
...would have been superhuman of red-headed Preston not to lose his temper at Stephen in the Penmarch library right afterwards. The frigid formalities of a "meeting" completed, he drew his pistol and fired. Cordelia, sure in her purpose, was there to knock his arm aside, so Stephen was not hurt, but Preston left Charleston believing in his New England heart that there was blood between him and the Chantrells, his best friends...
...next winter, Captain Donald McMillan visits the frigid shores of Labrador he will conceivably see a few native malamutes mushing in tweed knickers, full dress vests and starched Arrow collars, and touching up their huskies with squash racquets...