Word: frigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most listeners as a piece of sheer gibberish, a composer's nightmare in which the various instruments were twisted and tortured mercilessly, time after time baffling the listener's desire to discover in it any intelligible contours, whether harmonic, rhythmic, or melodic. But the Violin Concerto subdues the usually frigid and austere atonal system, and makes it the medium for an instantly moving masterpiece, one that will stand as a monument to a great composer who died before his time...
...Napoleon, whose fastest unit was the horse, reached Moscow on Sept. 14. This week, on Sept. 14, Hitler, whose fastest unit is the plane, was fighting Russian counter-attacks some 200 miles from Moscow. Napoleon stayed in Moscow for nearly six weeks, suffered cold and defeat in the frigid Russian winter, was back in Paris by Dec. 18. Later Napoleon said...
...Italian disciples of "the new order" were quite definitely having sabotage trouble as well as other kinds. While they retreated from the Greeks through Albanian mountain passes around Corizza, the Italians were sniped and raided by rebel Albanian guerrillas. Many little groups of four or five guerrillas in the frigid, snowy hills were said to add up to a large force commanded by former Albanian Major Ali Mehmed, who fled his native country when the Italians took over in 1938. Major Mehmed was reported to have returned to Albania quite recently by parachute from an unidentified plane...
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...