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Sirs: In TIME, Feb. 25, I read Henry J. Weeks' letter, headed "Admires own Form." Later in a newspaper I read the following: 1st Flapper-I believe my vanity is getting the best of me. 2nd Flapper-Why? 1st Flapper-Because I'm always standing before a mirror. 2nd Flapper-That is not vanity, that's imagination. You might call this a coincident. A.M. OMDAHL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Miss Bow has definitely graduated from the lightweight class and now ranks with the welters but the flapper of "It" she remains successively if not successfully in the plots accorded to her talent. Friends of the lady will recognize again in "Three Week Ends" her sinister love gesture, a long stare from under touseled locks, this time directed at Neil Hamilton. The other essentials are also present, lively bounding around, saxophone atmosphere, and the pathos of misunderstood love...

Author: By A. G. C., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/1/1928 | See Source »

...flapper but would like to correspond with men and women between the ages of 25 and 32." Fat Nellie Wallace wrote that in Tchula, Miss.; lonely Joe Sleet read it in El Paso, in the advertising columns of a magazine. He wrote to Nellie Wallace and sent her a lock of hair. That was ten months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 27, 1928 | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...will be 24 on Aug. 10. No girl from the farm, no onetime Childs' waitress, she entered the movies as a debutante from Montreal, Canada, where her family lost money after the World War. The pictures that made her were The Flapper, Broadway After Dark, Pleasure Mad. Later, she did The Demi-Bride, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. She is the women's tennis champion of Hollywood, swims and dives well, drives a Chrysler, likes apple pie and rice pudding, runs an ostrich plume shop in Montreal. Her husband is Irving Thai-berg, production manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Large significance attached to this resolution, last week, because among the 5,000,000 collectionists represented by the Union Congress many are young housewives, under 30, and these will soon be enabled to vote for the first time, by the confidently expected passage of the Equal Franchise ("Votes For Flappers") Bill (TIME, June 4, et ante). Collective buying thus looms as an appreciable factor in moulding the new Flapper Electorate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cooperatives & Flappers | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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