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Word: frigid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...peoples was recognized. Percy Grainger and MacDowell have made tentative advances into the interpretation of the spirit of snow-lands. But it has remained for a Danish disciple of the Norwegian Grieg to bring forth a full-fledged, large-proportioned evocation of Eskimo life, of its strange superstitions and frigid passions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Band of Gold | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

...York Evening Post: " Survivors of the Victorian age are not unlikely to echo their queen with a frigid: 'We are not amused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blind Bow-Boy* | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

...that the cat is out of the bag it remains only for Gibbons to nourish himself with Nuxated and knock the champion frigid in their next encounter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Nuxated Knockouts | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

...Hungarian of only eighteen years of age. His playing of Liszt's pyrotechnic concerto was superb, and he surpassed both previous performances in Boston. His technique was flawless; his control of tone in the more sentimental passages was in excellent taste. Fortunately "Sadko" had sufficiently aroused a decidedly frigid audience to give him the warm applause he merited...

Author: By A. L. S. ., | Title: BRILLIANT OPENING OF SYMPHONY CONCERTS | 10/22/1921 | See Source »

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