She's always able to make it. No luxuries and no frills, as she says.

Oh, by the way, sir, I took the liberty of removing those... chintz frills of Miss Stewart's off the dressing table.

I suggest that Your Ladyship cross the Isthmus of Panama and embark on a ship which has frills and fancies enough for women passengers.

Showing some culinary solidarity of their own, they met a reporter for dinner at Eisenberg's Sandwich Shop, a tiny no frills lunch counter in the Flatiron district that has been in business since the year of the crash, 1929.

And she repurposes them with frills and ribbons, and makes these frothy confections that she sells to women for their daughter's Sweet 16 or first Holy Communion those milestones in a life that people want to celebrate all along the economic spectrum.

As curious as such gestures are in an institution that thrives on imagery, they are symbolic frills. We already have plenty of pictures of Francis kissing babies what he faces now in Brazil and around the world are strategic matters of genuine substance.

Taxi drivers in France and around the world are particularly incensed about UberPOP (called UberX outside Europe), a no frills service. Uber has since withdrawn UberPOP from France, at least temporarily though not before two of its top managers were arrested for ignoring the government s injunction to suspend UberPOP.