Word: froid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pancho" Sarabia likes good, quiet clothes and Scotch whiskey, speaks good English, displays the nerveless sang-froid of a proper flier. Born 39 years ago in the little town of Lerdo, he attended Mexican schools, crossed the U. S. border to get a degree at New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, went to an automobile school in Kansas City, worked at the Buick plant in Michigan. In 1926 he took a $3 ride with a barnstormer. Next day Pancho started flying lessons and he has never been out of flying for more than three months since...
...ingenious thwarting of a series of labor disturbances just before the war serves to illustrate what sang froid and organizing ability Lepine brought to the office of prefect. On the famous "Day of Fear," a hundred thousand disgruntled workers were milling through the city; a host of apaches and incendiary radicals stood ready to exploit them. If riot was to be avoided without bloodshed, Lepine had to prevent the workers from massing at a given point. This he did with a handful of gendarmes and his "mental suggestion maneuvers." From early morning on, scattered marchers bound for a meeting place...
...movie star, is a beautiful blonde baby-faced boy of an apparent sixteen years. Mr. Janney handicaps his baby face with a nasal contralto voice. Mr. Janney would have an unsuccessful play at the Copley Theatre in Boston in his debit column, were it not for the inimitable sang-froid of Mr. Jack Egan, who, as the all-human political boss of Katonsville, Maryland, steals the show from the rest of the Katonsvillians, and makes an evening spent at the Copley a vaguely good thing...
...Modern Drama really helps. We long for the "sang-froid of an urster," to quote her "Sonnet From the Brooklynese," which is as perfect a thing of its kind a we have seen. "The Fly in the Ointment" and "Poem for Mother's Day" are superior works; others are not too good. Obviously we all can't be Nashes or Parkers, but there are other drums to be beaten. "I Feel Better Now" is one of them...