Word: frigid
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Some doctors suspect that about three out of every four U.S. women are frigid, i.e., get no sexual satisfaction. In the current Journal of the American Medical Association, Gynecologist William S. Kroger of Chicago and Endocrinologist S. Charles Freed of San Francisco chide U.S. gynecologists for not paying more attention to the problem...
Combat & Clothes. In another classification of frigid women the doctors lump the 'gold-digger,' who is financially exploiting many sexual partners and husbands ... the prostitute ... and the nymphomaniac, the latter in search for satisfaction which is never achieved...
...city of Pilsen from the Germans. Two weeks ago the U.S. Embassy in Prague notified the Czechoslovak government of American intentions to hold a small ceremony in Pilsen in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the freeing of the city. From the Czech Foreign Ministry came a prompt and frigid reply: "In view of the fact that the Czechoslovak government is organizing the celebrations of the . . . liberation of the Republic ... it does not consider the celebrations by the American Embassy as desirable...
...Boston dowager once dismissed Frederic Christopher Dumaine, 84-year-old president and chairman of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co., in a single frigid sentence: "Mr. Dumaine is the sort of person who spits in the fire." When he heard of the remark, improper Bostonian Dumaine turned to a friend, asked blandly: "Well, what the hell? Doesn't everybody...
...lack of one) between a rich, rampageous, epileptic Ecuadorian general and a prim, suicide-seeking, coffin-toting English governess. A kind of double target, Now I Lay Me contrasts farcically-as E. M. Forster and others have done more seriously-the torrid zone of the emotions with the frigid; i.e., Latin excesses and flamboyance with British repressions and good form...