Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wallis Simpson). Three years ago he married pretty Courtney Letts Stillwell Borden of Chicago. Appointed to the important post of Secretary General of the Buenos Aires conference, Señor Espil has for the first time taken his twice-divorced wife home to introduce her to the frigid salons of Argentina's strictly Catholic high society...
...difference is there between give-and-take living talk and the stale dead ashes of conversations raked over and microscopically dissected after many months! "The whole atmosphere and emphasis are changed. Transitions from one subject to another are blurred. Phrases taken from the context and subjected to a frigid post-mortem are hardly recognizable...
...ways the Church has more freedom in Russia now than it had under the Tsars. Then the Church was the means through which the Tsars ruled, indirectly at least. The preaching of the clergy was censored by edict of the Tsar and nonconforming prelates were imprisoned in dank and frigid Solovetsky Monastery on an island in the White Sea. The clergy in Russia today are not so poor as you might think. Not long ago I received a letter from a priest who wanted some new parts for his Buick...
...sexual, consequently could not understand ideas of faithful marriages. Hunters exchanged wives freely, often committed adultery, but never without asking permission of the husband. Husbands were also amused and puzzled when white sailors sneaked around their igloos, for they considered themselves honored if other men desired their wives. These frigid Puritans, however, roundly condemned women who picked up white sailors without first consulting their husbands...
Thickly frosted in the frigid air of Moonlight Valley, S. Dak., start of the two previous failures, the great rubbery bag grew like a mushroom in the night as 300 soldiers labored beneath floodlights to pump in 300,000 cu. ft. of helium. By dawn all was ready. The balloonists climbed aboard, shouted: "Up, balloon!" Released, it floated gently away, cleared the rim of the woodsy valley, drifted out of sight as the 20,000 chilled spectators trekked back to Rapid City. Six hours later, Capt. Stevens radioed that Explorer II had touched 74,000 ft., well above both...