Word: frigid
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...rode through the bedlam of the Place de la Concorde, staring with frigid disapproval at the hysterical, joy-drunk mobs, who threatened to engulf him. His heart and his tongue alike were prophetically bitter: the war, though mercifully over, had not been won. Into sullen, unmolested Germany marched a U.S. Army of Occupation. Pershing saw a future that wishful, gentler men could...
...slightest from righteousness. It is a fundamental Biblical concept that God is all justice and all love. In this case love would seek atonement and forgiveness for our enemies, both within and without the land. If peace cannot lead to atonement and forgiveness, the world will be frigid with hate and a trustworthy relationship between nations will be an impossibility. If we cannot forgive those of our own countrymen . . . even though they repent and are paying their penalties, then we will enter the future with an open sore in the national life...
...manner of a civil-service undertaker, frigid Sir John Anderson, Conservative member of the War Cabinet, spoke first for the Government. His dull, domineering gloom gave the House the impression that his job was to bury the Plan. Members gave him a rough ride. Next day, cherubic Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood substituted his perky optimism for the mortician's mood. Sir John had at least approved some social-security innovations, but after half an hour's perking, Sir Kingsley seemed to be suggesting that any changes whatever would be deferred until after...
Back in the teeth of half the nation winter flung an old, unheeded warning. Some people, unconvinced that the inevitable would happen, had not bothered to apply for fuel-oil rations. Some had already used up their quotas. And when winter's first frigid spell dropped thermometers toward the lowest point in 15 years (in Minneapolis) or 60 years (in Detroit) or any recorded year (in Pittsburgh), oil reserves ran dangerously...
...ballets by Choreographer Massine (lured from the Ballet Russe to do the job) provided the first week's novelties. Both left connoisseurs somewhat frigid. The first, Aleko, a hodgepodge of good-natured Slavic confusion, told the story of a youth who died of unrequited love for a gypsy. The second, and more elaborate, was Don Domingo, a Mexican extravaganza. Three months ago Choreographer Massine in a burst of good-neighborliness gave Don Domingo to the Mexican public. The Mexican public promptly tossed it back to Choreographer Massine amid loud critical catcalls. The Manhattan critics did the same. Don Domingo...