Word: folderol
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Anent the vituperative letter of one George Eustis Corcoran (TIME, May 21) relative to your publication of Samuel Insull's bashful physiognomy and the reporting of the Astor-Gillespie folderol, may we accept the compliment of "Being on a level" with TIME...
...pageants which survive every changing fashion took place this week in Manhattan. No preliminary folderol or new mise en scene was needed to insure its success. The order of events was essentially unchanged: a tense, gibbering line of folk waiting for admission, a battery of flashlight photographers ready to waylay bejeweled dowagers, a corps of bustling society reporters jotting down the names of people who bowed and scraped to others not really noticed since the pageant of the year before. So, as it has 46 times before, the Metropolitan Opera began a new season...
...politeness and geniality when feeling pleased but who invariably referred to the bathroom as "my bathroom" when anything, the Ivory Soap for instance, was missing. There was Mrs. Jollyco, a model wife and mother with a most engaging conversational manner, and so tactful that she did not offend Mrs. Folderol of Vanity Fair one bit when she told her that washing Baby Folderol with any soap but Ivory was bound to irritate his tender skin and was, in short, pure folderol. There was old Dr. Verity, who backed her up on this. The doctor had a son, Phil...