Word: frigid
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During the gridiron clash he will be restrained, it is hoped, by his caretakers. Providing for the possible cold weather he has been equipped with a black, grey, and gold overcoat to protect him from the frigid breezes sweeping over Soldiers Field...
Wilbur--"Courage". Janet Beecher struggles against extravagance, a frigid aunt, and a silly plot and wins...
...Equally frigid and correct are the relations of "Tiger" Clemenceau with the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine," M. Raymond Poincaré−now Prime Minister−who was President of France during the war. At the triumphal French entry into Strassburg in 1918, the Lion and the Tiger formally embraced each other, but it is said that they have never met or spoken since. Last week a personal autograph letter was sent by M. Poincaré to M. Clemenceau, inviting him in the name of the French Government to attend the funeral of Marshal Foch; but Le Tiger replied...
...confidence that the position of the British Government with respect to naval limitation is exactly as stated by Sir Esme. But 24 hours after he spoke people with good hindsight could see that he had made a shocking blunder from the viewpoint of the Empire's Foreign Secretary, frigid, be-monocled Sir Austen Chamberlain...
...time in all the year that his Puritan forebears had a good time. For three centuries the last Thursday in November has seen New England asceticism buried under a pile of stuffed fowl and mince pies in such quantities as to flout the good taste of a Roman Emperor. Frigid godliness in its one attempt to appear human sank for a brief holiday a bit below the line that divides hunger from voracity, and this annual fall from grace has left its mark upon a more moderate posterity. For those who find a vestigeal interest in the intellectual slowly reviving...