Word: froid
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...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...
Undoubtedly the instinct of ages past animated the men and women who quietly listened to the sickening snick which marked the end of a black man's life. Such incidents make understand able the sang-froid of the French women of the Parisian terror who knitted without dropping a stitch while the guillotine cut off royalist heads...
...life of a popular song," the New York Graphic. Columbus's arrival in Manhattan, a column called "Talk of the Town" signed Van Bibber III; an article on Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Director of the Metropolitan Opera Company, by one Golly-Wogg; "The Theatre," by Last Night; "Art," by Froid; "Moving Pictures," by Will Hays Jr.; Wall Street Notes, by Well Known Broker. These Manhattanites chuckled at several jokes which they had chuckled at before, glared at several which they had never before encountered. They wondered whether subtlety or myopia were responsible for "The Optimist...
...unwritten law- not always, however, unvoiced- that royal utterances shall not be directly quoted. What King Alfonso has to say about Spain was therefore placed conveniently in the third person. If the account had been quoted in the first person it would have revealed Alfonso's sang froid to a marked degree and would have appeared thus: "The rumor of a coming crisis has been spread by Spanish newspapers which do not like the present régime because it has cut off the subsidies allowed the Press by the former Government. There are 70 dailies...