Word: flapperisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is anyone so disillusioned as to believe that attacks of collegiate "morality" originated with the advent of the automobile, the flapper and the bootlegger and the alleged evils attendant on them, or that college youths of the decades preceding the "Gay Nineties" passed their scholastic careers in a state of idyllic "purity", let him read the following passage from the May 19, 1877, edition of "The Cambridge Chronicle" which a curious Crimson reporter unearthed to the everlasting shame of Harvard men. Called "A Specimen of College Morality--Cat and Dog Fight Last Sunday--Where were the Police", it throws...
...little moth, a little singe" and it is nothing to bring a lump to the throat when a young girl surrenders her virtue? To be sure it is only a picture, but is it teaching the young and innocent girl, even though she may be called a "flapper" that it is "only a little singe" to do this? Is your reporter lending himself to the support of such a false theory? Is is possible that it is not known what the first downward step means to a girl, and that in life where such a thing happens...
...sheriff had Governor-elect Dan Moody's stenographer in custody. Public opinion was more perplexed than outraged. At the University of Texas, where she was earning an M. A. despite her full-time hours in Mr. Moody's office, Rebecca Bradley was called "serious-minded." Instead of "flapper bandit," Texans were saying, "an aberration." Robbery with firearms is a capital crime in Texas. But Governors can pardon anything...
...than fiction. For the old preChristian festival of the coming of spring--in Plakos, the scene of the action, with the holy spring, the race of the young men and the sacrifices to appease a jealous God--on the outcome of which hangs of fate of the not unpleasing flapper heroine--lends a back-ground and flavor not to be found in the ordinary detective thriller. The past, the primitive past, with its mysteries and festivals that one feels are perhaps after all part of man, hangs over the book, a dark and rather compelling cloud...
...play in which a flapper was seduced by her own father. (Outside Looking...