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Word: frump (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Merely because Frau Stresemann is almost the only wife of a German Cabinet Minister who is not plump or a frump, they disapprove. But no one ever seems to really mind, least of all the smart Poodle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vivat Gustavus Rex! | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...back; he had to create them; and, in a country which for centuries had reveled in kingly glory, the lack was unusually difficult. It was said that he ate peas with his knife, that he was illiterate, that he dressed like a navvy, that his wife was "an old frump." A thousand jokes at his expense were born. Some said that Frau Ebert would sweep the Presidential Palace herself and that he would polish his own doorknobs. All these jokes he and his wife wisely ignored and soon they ceased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Long Live the Republic | 3/9/1925 | See Source »

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