Word: frumiousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...this the frumious Mr. Ford had watched. He had listened to paltering discussions of whether to impose wage controls and farm-price controls-two enormous areas which the bill in the first instance ignores, in the second winks at, lest labor and the farmers be outraged. (This bogey had been challenged by Bernard M. Baruch, World War I defense tsar, who declared that the public will support any bill that is uniform in its treatment of all classes and all goods, if the law is fairly and evenly administered...