Word: flapperisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mongoose loathes the cobra, as the herring fears the shark, as the flapper dodges "lectures," so do editors shun the machinations of a species whose villainy is (to editors) as plain as the nose on your face and as hard to clap your eyes on. This species was for a long time called "press agent." His "hoy," "bunk" and "bull" stories, his hoaxes, false fronts and fabrications were easily detected and. cast out when he was in his professional nonage. Then he became a "publicity agent" and a "moulder of favorable public opinion." If there is anything an editor hates...
...Dolly Madison were alive today," said Mrs. Colman, "she would have been classed as a flapper. . . . She was frivolous, used rouge, dipped snuff, and . . . played cards for high stakes. . . . Quite another sort of woman was Martha Washington, a quiet lady, gentle and demure...
...could mix a cocktail as well as the veriest flapper of today. Dancing, as well as hurdling, was a passion with her. And she even hurdled over the tops of society's best ottomans and chairs, to the horror of maids and matrons more restrained than...
...turned out to be a decidedly amusing U. S. comedy of love and kindred complications, and Broadway critics were pleasantly and enthusiastically surprised. Perhaps they liked the leading actress best of all. She is Claiborne Foster, a capable young miss more or less given in the past to doing flapper parts in moderate plays. It was she indeed who had the lead in Applesauce in Chicago. Which may account for the success of Mr. Conners' earlier concoction there...
...Moderns. It seems eminently right and thoroughly as it should be to see Colleen Moore in a role which Helen Hayes played on the stage. Each is the most enduring flapper of her domain. When Miss Hayes played the drama (by Israel Zangwill) it was not a success. No stronger is the story in the films. It tells of a modern miss who chased all over London after the man she loved. There is, however, a good deal of Colleen Moore, which is more than enough for many...