Word: frigidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...sustain the reputation of the institution with which he is connected it is commonly but erroneously, supposed that is he develops his muscles, if he subscribes to the athletic enterprises and the College papers, if he occasionally at tends recitations, and if he professes a healthy antipathy to frigid religious exercises at frigider hours of the most frigid of winter mornings, he has done enough. In other universities he very probably has; but in Harvard the case is other wise. Strong, generous learned, and liberal as Alma Mater unquestionably is her greatest glory lies in the faultless folds...
...first signs of spring were apparent yesterday afternoon despite the frigid weather. LeC. H. Eells 1G.B. after many tempting bribes offered to him by fellow students consented to swim across the Charles River...
...pause. Let us now change our beaming faces from a smile of loyalty to deeply furrowed frowns. Let us shake our heads and hold up a finger pregnant with remonstrance. Where is the American Flag in Cambridge? Plainly and simply-nowhere. Hardly the embers of patriotism glow in its frigid bosom. To be specific. Did the Flag, the Stars and Stripes of the American Republic, wave over University Hall on February 22 last? Yes, it did wave from two o'clock in the afternoon until six P. M. A feeble display of the ritual was carried out without that deep...