Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George Van Lengen, a graduate of Harvard Law School; and sergeant-at-arms to a former New York City policeman and military horo from Westchester, the province of one of the anti-Wagner coalition's main supporters James Luddy. The motive behind such a letter, with its frigid, openly hostile tone, could only be anger, which seems peculiar from a man who professed indifference to the Albany out-come...
...frigid Polar Bears, who have been walloped by Brown 11-1 and Northeastern 13-1, will be the Crimson's easiest opponents of the year. Harvard lost 6-2 to Northeastern Wednesday in a relative squeaker, so if comparative scores mean anything, the Crimson can't miss...
...harm. And it is usually out of the icebox long enough to warm up a little before surgery. The body can handle the difference in temperature when the volume of the transfusion is not too large. But if a surgery patient needs several pints, the shock of the frigid flood fresh from the blood bank may kill...
...cool offices for fear salesmen will not venture out; since Asians assume that a closed door means an absent merchant, others suffer the high cost of keeping their air conditioners on and their doors open. The biggest inconvenience is that many offices, for reasons of prestige, are kept so frigid that Oriental secretaries have to wear a couple of sweaters to survive. "I keep it too cold," says the manager of Saigon's Caravelle Hotel. "I like people to notice that this hotel is air conditioned...
...much of a literary stylist, Gronow employs a direct but flat prose that captures his subjects like wasps in amber. Yet between the lines, his frigid, faultlessly attired figure dominates the book. He emerges haughty, violently prejudiced, yet worldlywise. As one contemporary wrote: "He committed the greatest of follies without in the slightest disturbing the points of his shirt collar." Can any modern memoirist make the same claim...