Word: foofaraw
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...NANETTE (204). Long, long ago, it used to be said that good Americans went to Paris when they died. Nowadays they go to No, No, Nanette. It's a nice place to expire-with nostalgia, laughter and the ultimate in escapist foofaraw. One can only hope that they gild Ruby Keeler's shoes for the Hoofer's Hall of Fame and vote Patsy Kelly the Most Amusingly Insolent Maid of the Century. To Helen Gallagher, and Bobby Van, let's just say, "Thou swell...
Without the high jinks and foofaraw that accompany most national conventions, the American Bar Association last week gaveled open its 85th annual meeting, settled down in San Francisco to the serious examination of the state of the law in the U.S. and the prospects for extending the rule of law throughout the world. Key briefs from some key speakers...
...both smaller and less elegant than the old font; the color illustrations are bright and ugly, and the charming obscurities once collected at the bottom of each page have either been eliminated or squeezed into the general text. Newness cries out raucously everywhere from this ill-conceived, middlebrow foofaraw. Look on these words, ye mighty, and despair...
...With all the foofaraw about our "over 6%" rate of unemployment, too many people have forgotten that during the first two terms of Franklin Roosevelt's Administration unemployment remained above 14%, and in 1938, his sixth year in office...
...family foofaraws." Do you know what foofaraw means? It is a word that was used by the fur traders and trappers in the Rockies in the early 1800s. It meant the trinkets these men gave the Indian girls and squaws for their favors. It might even mean fur jackets or a horse and saddle. Foofaraw was whatever it took to make...