Word: fatuous
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Relapse contains, however, the brightest of his characters, the fatuous coxcomb Lord Foppington. All prance, prattle and fizz, Foppington is far more concerned about the location of a coat pocket than the loss of a wife.† British Actor Cyril Ritchard (Love for Love, Make Way for Lucia) blends a born sense of comedy with a brilliant sense of style. His Foppington is no mere lace-handkerchief dangler, but the eager performer of an idiotic role, with a need and a genius for catching the limelight. Ritchard understands that the key to Foppington and his kind is not an ambiguity...
...Abandon the most fatuous and debilitating slogan that ever misled a generation," he told Brown undergraduates last week at the opening of a new college year. "Give up security as an ideal. Anyone who promises security is misbranding his political, social and economic goods ... If you insist on being cheated, buy gold bricks or perpetual-motion machines...
...vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public which proved to be the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut-rate telegraph plaudits has taken Mother's Day to its soft, fatuous heart...
...months, non-partisan Alexander Diomedes had headed an uneasy coalition cabinet of Populists and Liberals. Last week the coalition broke up, largely because of fat, fatuous Dino Tsaldaris, onetime Premier who served as Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister in the Diomedes cabinet. For weeks he had been on the stump, campaigning for the impending Greek national elections; he had infuriated the Liberals, had antagonized Marshal Alexander Papagos and War Minister Panayotis Kanellopoulos by loudly claiming credit for his own Populist party for the victory over the Communists...