Word: flapper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eighth Act. The son, grown potent, rows on his college eight. Watching from the expensive Evans yacht are Nina, her three men, and a flapper in love with her son. She hates the flapper about to take her son; jealously tries as did her own father to smash the match. Son wins the race. Stoutly successful, Sam dies of apoplexy...
...Ninth Act. Son and flapper disappear to start life together. Darrell is finally sent away forever. Grey-haired Nina, grey-haired Marsden subside into the painless decay of dreams through which so many live when useful life is done...
Lucien Lelong: Gowns of intricate cut, moulding and revealing the curved lines of the figure, executed in subdued light shades. Said M. Lelong, last week: "Woman returns to the elegant, poised, long-limbed, distinguished figure. She abandons with relief the bony, jazzy flapper figure, evoked by the aftermath of War hysteria...
Ridiculous. The girl was no....ahem..."flapper". Those clear eyes were to transparently frank to habour double meanings, or shall we call it double entente? Was she a philosopher?....Did that noble brow shield an intellect comparable to her outward beauty?..Was this her philosophy of life...
...Spread Eagle and Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon satisfied many a theatregoer that her tall, angular person is an almost ideal instrument for fateful, tragic roles. Here, however, she performs commendably as the knowing wife of a popular literatus who is beset by a flapper openly intent upon seducing him into being the victim of her first affaire. Wisely, the wife allows the little one to get just near enough to the danger line to discover that she is better off far away in the arms of her own youthful, unmarried lover. It is pleasant, light...