Word: flibbertigibbet
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...Constant Wife, Bergman is Constance Middleton, an amiable, idle woman who plays hostess to life in a well-appointed drawing room. Her husband John (Jack Gwillim) is a prosperous Harley Street surgeon who is having an affair with Constance's best friend, a blonde married flibbertigibbet. Omniscient as Sherlock Holmes and calmative as Candida, Constance knows all about it and does not wish to be told. But friends will tell...
...come back to us, Robert A. Heinlein, amateur astronomer, former naval person, practical engineer, supreme cynic, ideological flibbertigibbet, magnificent story-teller. It will be too much to take if the bad madness of the nation has ruined...
...haired and blue-eyed, she reigned as a Broadway beauty through the early 1900s, drawing homage from Mark Twain and Enrico Caruso before capturing Flo Ziegfeld as her husband. Her fame came from her skill as a comedienne in the years after 1930, when she appeared as a flibbertigibbet in scores of plays (Her Master's Voice, Mrs. January and Mr. X) and movies (Topper, The Wizard of Oz, Hi Diddle Diddle). "Oh," she once wrote, "that sad and bewildering moment when you are no longer the cherished darling, but must turn the corner and try to be funny...
...with "the perfect face for radio." She is also the one who gushes too much, as in her introduction of Guest Muriel Humphrey: "You're so beautiful it's ridiculous! It looks like you were hired by central casting!" She can be alternately flip and flibbertigibbet but generally plays angel's advocate...
...seconds in which to deal with his subject. That's "between 180 and 200 words, depending on how many are polysyllabic," he says. But despite the nerve-racking restrictions, he pours a remarkable amount of information, polish and tart viewpoint into his reviews. Of the flibbertigibbet comedy import, There's a Girl in My Soup, he observed: "Here we have the sort of English play that prevents the American theater from having a permanent inferiority com plex." Or recently, from off-Broadway If two foul-mouthed mental defectives shouting at each other is your idea of theater, there...