Word: frigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This poverty of "cause" is nowhere more vividly illustrated than inside the frigid walls of an old Japanese prison in Mukden where the Nationalists are "re-indoctrinating" or "changing the minds" of some 2,000 Communist prisoners. The camp commandant claimed that this indoctrination course changed the minds of 90% of the Communists brought in. How did he do it? First, he said, with good treatment and "a warm heart." There are also big signs painted in white-and-blue characters which cry "Honor the National Government-Obey the Generalissimo!," pamphlets explaining the three People's Principles...
...axiomatic, almost, that each day's signal will be described in the public print as "spirited," and the adjective had lost a good deal of whatever meaning it started out with. But yesterday's session actually had a kind of fire, a handy attribute since the field gets frigid after 5 o'clock...
...Newell did not know for sure, but he could make some guesses. Perhaps the ice age which chilled the earth in those remote days eliminated all climatic zones except the frigid and the temperate. Perhaps the earth's poles were in different places then, allowing a temperate zone to curve unbroken all the way from the U.S. to Peru...
...last part of American Memoir deals with the quarter century of Canby's experience in literary Manhattan, beginning in 1920 when Canby was editor of a Saturday supplement to the old New York Evening Post (later the Saturday Re-view). The author's affections are somewhat frigid and his sense of anecdote lacks pungency, so that much of these reminiscences of a rather raffish and effervescent period read like a sedate editorial essay. His reports of acquaintanceship with people he admires, such as Willa Gather, Robert Frost and Clarence Day (Life with Father) are too guarded and smooth...
...Kankakee, the famed beauties at the Folies Bergère "will be acting with even more abandon now that warm weather is here. Last winter their nude bodies were often blue with cold, and electricians had to work overtime devising lights that would give the proper hue to the frigid form divine...