Word: flapper
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Carlyle was right-human nature is mostly clothes; and Bolshevists, as well as the African savage and the society flapper of either sex, can be dazzled by silk and glitter, and the chance to exhibit a well-shaped calf. Indeed it seems strange that diplomats and statesmen have not recognized the truth of this before, and spared their dignities and their heads by a well-earned distribution of raiment. The American has had his "red-cost", the Chinaman his Manchu queue, the English Cavalier his ground-heard the Frenchman his culottes Descending from the national level even the "Harvard...
There is such a variety of plot to "Upstairs and Down," that it is somewhat difficult to pick the stars. Miss Middleton and Mr. Gilbert of course held the centre of interest, the former making an exceptionally good flapper. Miss Mason as Betty, the older sister, also made a very good impression, while Mr. Gordon and Miss Roach showed themselves very competent as host and hostess. Downstaris, Mr. Ramley and Mr. Chase furnished the most interest. For the Boston Stock Company as a whole, we can only say this week will be remembered as one of the most successful...
...therefore eligible. The girl loves him herself, but is willing to sacrifice him to keep him in the family. But the youth her sister really loves comes into a chewing gum fortune, thereby re-establishing his status as a suitor. Sister throws her fiancê over, and the flapper catches the oil magnate on the rebound...
...poet is gushing amours to the artist's sister. Romantic, she believes his lovemaking goes no further than moonlight and roses; but a kiss he snatches at a midnight rendezvous opens her eyes. She considers him carnally voluptuous. Then a threatened operation for the vapid mother makes this flapper understand how precious Mother and her fogey ideas really are. Bathos...
Helen Hayes is radiantly demure as the flapper, as deft and cocky as a bird. Hers is the only real spark of life in the piece. O. P. Heggie is condemned to suffocate his gorgeous Dickensian caricaturing in a stuffed shirt role. Kenneth MacKenna and Gilda Leary are others who try valiantly to keep their bearings...