Word: froid
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...girl of ten crying bitterly. She wore a thin red cotton sweater with a thin cotton dress underneath and the Belgian approximation of bobby socks in scuffed shoes. Her mother, wearying under a heavy bundle, spoke sullenly and bitterly when we asked what was wrong. 'Elle a froid. C'est tout. Elle a froid.' ('She's cold. That's all. She's cold...
...measure of British sang-froid and the "business as usual" spirit in London was shown last week by a crowd of several hundred women shoppers. They staged a hectic bargain rush in one of the big West End stores at the very moment when scores of firemen were digging through tons of debris in the same store in frantic efforts to release 200 clerks entombed in the basement night before by a bomb...
...writers can handle an early 18th-Century English subject with a grace and sang-froid that would have passed muster in that brilliant age. Peter Quennell (pronounced Kweneir) is (with Virginia Woolf, Edith Sitwell, Lord David Cecil) one of the few. An Oxonian of ascetic good looks and elegant manners, Quennell was turned loose six years ago on a great collection of Byron's letters owned by Publisher John Murray. His Byron: The Years of Fame was the sprightly result; his preoccupation with the 18th Century followed. In the spirit of the age, Quennell has rapidly taken three wives...
...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...