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fashion fripperies
Far from contemplating any form of royal frippery, we suggest that a new—probably smaller—royal yacht should be designed and built without further delay for export promotion.
Fund-raising activities are no longer being undertaken for what used to be considered to be the fripperies or luxuries or for the fortunate extensions of educational experience.
Get rid of all these silly fripperies.
They want to send to us what are less essential goods, what one might call fripperies, and we just cannot afford to exchange for those goods valuable capital equipment.
We are not indulging in frippery, because the arts are significant and not simply a minority interest.
Now is a time when we do not want ornamental names or titles or frippery of that sort.
Those are not luxuries or fripperies, but basic necessities.
It is these serious realities, and not the cheap party fripperies that are worrying the serious-minded people in this country.
