Word: frigid
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Your very timely coverage of Canada's war effort apparently met with a frigid reception at Ottawa, as the latest issue of TIME has not reached this part of the Dominion as yet. We may be in a minority, but our reaction was that a true report of the activities of our Government was long overdue. There has been a feeling for some time that all was not well in Ottawa despite the fact that the vast majority of Canadians are willing to make any sacrifice to aid the mother country and the Empire...
...clergyman's daughter, young Dorthea married a clergyman-an old one-and suffered several frigid years. When he died, she married Businessman Jorgen Thestrup and settled down placidly to "the natural, modest contentment which a female may achieve in a marriage sensibly contracted." This arrangement brought her, with the years, seven children and such morsels of natural, modest wisdom as the following...
...spring of that year Sepp Trautwein is still just a warm-tempered Munich bourgeois living in voluntary exile: unappreciative of his excellent wife, writing a piece now & then for the exiles' paper, the Paris Gazette, working hard and slowly at his gifted, rather frigid music...
...mother break down and abjectly beg him to come away with her; and he has painfully made his choice. Meanwhile, too, he has carried on his active life in school, has been out on an excellently told double date, and has broken the spell of sacred fear under which frigid Louise Carpenter had held...
...disappointment of Washington society columnists, who came this time not to jot down details of furbelows and jewels, but to spy out diplomatic incidents, Nazi, British, French, Russian, Finnish envoys avoided each other with frigid finesse. Near-incidents: 1) Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumansky almost bumped into Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope, but just in time handsome Mr. Procope turned aside toward the chocolate cookies. 2) Rumors spread that the fancy pants of Mehmet Munir Ertegun, Turkish Ambassador, split slightly as he bowed before the President. No one could confirm this rumor, as the Ambassador stood poker-faced with his back...