Word: flapperisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patience with those exceedingly self-conscious members of the older generation who are, to quote George Kaufman and Marc Connelly, "rocker bound"; who insist on their creaking mentality and absurd clinging to standards which they really never possessed. I'll admit that I do not care for the flapper grandmother; but the dignified preservation of a youthful viewpoint cannot be questioned. The wisdom of age combined with the enthusiasm of youth and a tolerance which is characteristic of no time of life but is, perhaps, a God-sent gift somewhat akin to second sight, is a state of bliss...
...seems to me to have achieved rather less than Robert Nathan and rather more than Stephen Vincent Benet, Cyril Hume or Dorothy Speare. His coming novel should mean a definite prophecy for future work. It is to be hoped that from it will be absent the seemingly inevitable flapper...
...Aneyniev came on the stage, holding her baby in her arms and accompanied by her husband, the atmosphere became charged with electrical emotion and the heart of every little Soviet flapper beat a rapid tattoo against her agitated bosom. The baby, "a little doll-like creature," nestling in her mother's arms, was dressed in white, except for a fringe of red roses sewn around her bonnet...
Gertrude Atherton, novelist: " My book, Black Oxen, which revolves about the metamorphosis of an elderly woman into a frisky flapper through a rejuvenating glandular operation, was removed from the shelves of public libraries in Rochester, N. Y., by Mayor Van Zandt, at the request of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The reason given was: ' Unfit for the minds of young people...
Five years later the trio reassembles to audit the proceeds of their gamble. After going over the books for two acts the girl decides the coin spun in her favor. The odd man seeks solace with a finale flapper...