Word: flappering
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...Again, the paper declared that--I quote its own culture word--the Harvard "flapper fans and road house roues" were anxious about the scholastic superiority of the Jews. I have no personal friends and few acquaintances who could aspire to the above complimentary description, but if any such exist they probably do not spend their time figuring out the alarming change in the percentage of Phi Beta Kappa membership...
While yet "The Mirrors of Downing Street" and "the Glass of Fashion" are being widely discussed as something more worth while than the effervescence of "the Grandmother of the Flapper" or the diaric bombast of Colonel Repington there comes another books from the pen of A Gentleman With a Duster. It may not command such a broad audience solely with religious personality and "the rather ignoble situation of the Church in the affections of men", but an eclectic public will appreciate the earnestness of the man even if it doesn't agree with his views...
...matter of fact it wasn't so much Princeton that suffered from "This Side of Paradise" as it was the hitherto comparatively harmless flapper...
...experiences on the canal, his naive behaviour in difficult circumstances, his conscientions adherence to his blundering theories make him a figure that contrasts pleasantly with the average man-in-the-novel of today. How the heroine, above-mentioned, who would have been much more at home in a Fitzgerald "flapper" story, could have had any use for him is beyond comprehension. Mr. Quick's casual characterization is also attractive. He gives his impressions after the manner of some of our better cartoonists, by accurate trifles of description and analysis that have far more effect than less natural methods...
Hollis.--"The Intimate Strangers" by Booth Tarkington. Wherein Billie Burke's maturer charms win out against the wiles of a Tarkington flapper. Delicate conversational comedy...