Word: flapper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Free Service? A flapper with twelve one-dollar-bills and a rouged smile should not be entitled to a fancy checkbook, according to banker C. W. Allendoerfer of Kansas City, who fulminated against the length to which "free service" is being carried by banks. He declared that country correspondents who want theatre tickets bought for them should be humored; but that a line must be drawn somewhere. Accounts must be examined to discover whether they are really profitable...
CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA-Shaw comedy with Helen Hayes as the flapper Cleopatra...
CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA- Shaw comedy wherein a flapper Cleopatra plays verbal hide-and-seek with a superannuated Caesar...
CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA ? Shaw comedy wherein a flapper Cleopatra plays verbal hide-and-seek with a superannuated Caesar...
Perhaps this is what Mr. Clark meant by the "flapper" mind. His mistake has been to dismiss all student animadversion as being of this type. He almost ignores the serious and thoughtful criticism of American life in general, and of college life in particular, now appearing in many college papers. In some of them, at least, vagaries have given place to direct and definite analysis. The Dartmouth, for example, has seized upon some of the salient faults of "this generation of ours." Says the Hanover paper: "We are the froth of the post-war wave. This generation of ours...