Word: frigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effort to induce his long-frigid bull alligators to mate, Curator of Reptiles Robert Snedigar, of Chicago's Brookfield Zoo, stooped to trickery. He invited four French horn players to play a few B-flat notes which, he said, sound just like the male alligator's mating burp. Results: none...
...Canada's frigid Fort Churchill, on an inspection tour as chairman of the U.S.-Canada defense board, Fiorello La-Guardia slipped into a furry hat and posed for cameramen (see cut). Then he hurled a $500,000 legal snowball at the New York World-Telegram. He disliked some recent editorials on his mayoralty, he said, and was suing for libel...
...news of a more pointedly frigid U.S. attitude, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Reading about the Arctic trials of the U.S. Army's Operation Frigid, Americans of both hemispheres inevitably wondered about the state of their common defenses. For instance: What about the chain of bases the U.S. had constructed for hemispheric security during World...
...frigid festivities for the Boston Council of the Intercollegiate Outing Clubs of America will be inaugurated this weekend with a Winter Carnival on a smaller scale to the Dartmouth carnival of the northern New England colleges...