Extensive society page coverage of the ball gave them an excuse to claim James was too frivolous to run a life insurance company.

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At Oxford, punting on the Isis and Cherwell rivers, she could be frivolous and flirtatious, and all her life she tended to prefer handsome men to plain ones.

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Those bewitched by the John-John idea saw the grown man as a frivolous young fellow floating carelessly on the pleasures of life.

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