Word: flibbertigibbeting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Victoria. This easy informality and Frederika's gift for bowling over generals, sergeants and congressmen alike has proved a major asset to a ruling house whose royal motto is: "My power is in the love of the people." But Greece's Queen is no royal flibbertigibbet. Born to the purple as well as being married to it, she takes what she calls "this King business" with deadly seriousness, and exploits every ounce of her charm and wit to strengthen its power...
Menagerie is the reminiscence of a merchant seaman (Arthur Kennedy) about his life with mother (Gertrude Lawrence) and sister (Jane Wyman) in a shabby St. Louis flat across the alley from a dance hall. Mother, a onetime Southern belle long ago deserted by her husband, is a flibbertigibbet who clings to her airs of gentility, her magnolia-scented memories and a fierce desire to find a husband for her crippled, pathologically shy daughter...