Word: frump
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...nonetheless astounded at his new rating in the art market. His first reaction: "People must have more money than sense." As abruptly as he had jettisoned them three years ago, Monaco's absolutist Prince Rainier III, 38, restored to his subjects their 51-year-old constitution and frump Parliament. The de-putsch decree -designed to juice up Rainier's popular support and democratic image-was proclaimed on the eve of a showdown with Monaco's protecting power, France, over the principality's tax-free status. Though negotiations would commence below the summit, His Most Serene Highness...
Whereupon the indomitable frump hauls on her baggy tweeds, takes up her trusty golf clubs ("Must keep fit, you know"), and stomps forth to see justice done. In the process, she takes a position as maid-of-all-work in Ackenthorpe Hall, a grim old grange about an hour from London, where she not only discovers the strangled woman's body in the Egyptian sarcophagus-the one that every English country house is fitted out with-tut even grubs up two more fine fresh stiffs. And of course in the end the old bag bags the killer. Best shot...
...Rudy Vallee (age: 60) plays him. J.B. knits for relaxation; Finch ar ranges to be caught knitting. J.B. warms, bumble-tongued, to his dedicated under ling: "I like the way you thinch, Fink." Naturally, there are booby traps in the corridors of power. There is J.B.'s nephew, Frump (Charles Nelson Reilly), who has the looks and the instincts of a praying mantis. There is J.B.'s mistress, Hedy La Rue (Virginia Martin), a carrot-topped vixen with a 14-karat heart. And there is the mating-call girl, played by raven-haired Bonnie Scott...
...that Maria refuse some of those second helpings of Kartoffelklösschen and Sachertorten, and lose a little weight-say, 20 Ibs. Maria agreed, but when she arrived in Hollywood to start shooting, she was as broad as ever. Furthermore, she was dressed like a middle-aged Central European frump. Her frocks were all in the height of Paris fashion-most of them made by Dior-but she had not bothered to take care of one minor detail: none of them had been properly fitted...
...initiation rites begin in a small Mississippi River town in the '30s, with several of the stories pivoting around two youngsters named Jason and Ira Garrett. In Chip Canary, Jason tangles with the town queer woman, Elizabeth Minerva Stretch. She is a monstrous frump, always trundling a baby carriage full of junk and dubbed-for some shadowy peccadillo of the past-"Chip Canary." In a moment of adolescent bravado Jason yells out this taboo nickname, then breaks and runs. That night, snug in bed, Jason smiles as he hears his father say to his mother...