Word: flapper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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American suffragists have for a long time ridiculed the action of porliament in withholding the vote from women until they are thirty years of age. But in England the flapper is at a mile stone. In his last campaign Mr. Stanley Baldwin promised suffrage equality to the young women. Bearing the next election in mind, he must choose either the threatened fury of his ultra-conservative supporters or the more terrifying resentment of some millions of women in England who already have the vote by virtue of their being over thirty years...
...Philadelphia, one Jessie M. Hodges, trying to remove hair from her face, used a preparation bearing the picture of Edna Wallace ("Eternal Flapper") Hopper. The chemical removed Miss Hodge's skin and pained her. She has filed suit against Mrs. Hopper...
...opening verse: Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine, and there are more than hints of more. Young Uldine, with her shiny scrubbed face, has been quoted as saying that flappers do not get their flapper ways from the Bible...
When Tarhata Kiram, flapper Philippine princess, married a Moro chieftain, newspapers printed columns, made sure that the U. S. knew. Last week, other things far more troublous to Governor General Leonard Wood, claimed his attention...
...this the only beating Gambler-Publisher Bonfils suffered during the week. The Post started to run Chickie, a fiction serial proved by trial in other cities as infallible bait for morons. But the flapper-heroine had scarcely been seduced before the News saved all Denver the petty pace of many tomorrows by flooding the city with Chickie, complete in book form, free with News want ads. . . . The circulation manager of the Post resigned...