Word: frumious
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...follow the dodo and the passenger pigeon into extinction, who will inherit the earth? Faced with that gloomy question, most futurists and even some zoologists tend toward the whimsical: late-late-show killer ants, say, or playful monsters that put one in mind of Lewis Carroll's frumious Bandersnatch...
...River, 48 miles northeast of Seattle. As the incredulous Sultanites watched, onward trooped hundreds of hippies, pseudo hippies, camp followers, hangers-on, even some ordinary-looking folks. Then came the musicians with the weird-sounding names and getups - Country Joe and the Fish, the Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, Frumious Bandersnatch, Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck, Dr. Humbead's New Tranquility String Band. They all headed for the farm owned by Divorcee Betty Nelson, a late-blooming flower child of 39 and, starting right then and there, Sultan's first rock impresario...
...feel like a frustrated frump in a frumenty, because I don't know what frumious means, and Webster's doesn't tell me. I knew Mayor Kelly was fulgid and fubsy, but I never before suspected his frumiousness [TIME, March 25]. You've been my revered fugleman for so long that I know you won't let me down...
...Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch...
Chicago's frumious Mayor Ed Kelly, who once introduced the Navy's famed "Bull" Halsey as "Alderman Halsey" had another one of those weeks. Highlights...