Word: flapper
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Last week Representative Branch of Liberty introduced a resolution into the Florida House of Legislature that reference to any woman as a "flapper" would be considered an offense against the dignity of the State. The resolution was laid on the table, relegated to the calendar, and eventually deposited in the waste basket! It was felt that Representative Branch was not being as serious as he might be. Actually he was being a little too serious, for the abomination of the word "flapper" scarcely merits a state action...
...born of sudden inspiration, or actual need for a specifying word. It strengthens the language until that time arrives when its meaning has been so twisted and broadened that it becomes no longer respectable. Either it will escape this calamity and become a real word, or like the term "flapper", which originally was an apt expression, it will sink to the level of drab profanity...
...turned from her task of playing fluffy-headed harlots to the impersonation of an old Portuguese. But she isn't such a very old woman. Two handsome men fall fearfully in love with her. But she is chiefly occupied with her wandering boy who involves himself with a flapper and steals a diamond necklace...
...Lindsey's story was shouted from front page to front page. This last year, Bernarr Macfadden's Physical Culture featured him. For this health and sex publication, the Judge wrote a series on The Revolt of Modern Youth, in which he exposed the "code of the flapper world." In it he told the story of an innocent girl whose family had never told her anything, who wanted experience, who found it. "The institution of marriage should be tended?it is allowed to grow like a weed in a neglected garden...
...example should do much toward sobering modern youth. Nothing that the older generation can say could bring the irresponsible swain to his senses more rapidly than a visit by the tailor to measure him for a winding sheet. The scatterbrained flapper ought to come closer to philosophy than at any other time in her life as she slowly goes to the Copley to keep a tea date with her undertaker...