Word: flapperisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Precise little mechanical steps grouped to suggest the scaffolding of the classic ballet, a circus girl teetering on a tight rope, a novice tempted by visions of earthly pleasures, a campus flapper inspired by John Held Jr.'s caricatures?of such varied and original material did Ruth Page create the Manhattan program. Particularly interesting were the Balinese impressions gathered from the recent visit there;* a dance called Sun-Worshippers showing a beach group in bathing suits against a backdrop of skyscrapers; blues done in crazy, geometric design...
...furnished room on 9th Avenue and 59th Street, eating their meals in delicatessens and out of paper bags set out on the top of their trunk. Norma posed for advertisements, worked now and then as an extra. After Lewis J. Selznick gave her a good part in The Flapper she began to get offers from West Coast producers. Now wife of Irving Thalberg, production manager of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she lives in one of the biggest houses in Hollywood. She yearly wins the Hollywood women's tennis championship, weekly or oftener takes a bath in starched water to preserve...
...masticates eclectically. After breakfast someone reads a Bible for ten minutes. At 10 dark glasses are put on and John D. goes out for golf. The whole year he never loses more than three balls. When he wins he does a happy little Charleston. If a flapper is around he may remark: "You ought to kiss my hand for that." The flapper usually complies, and gets a dime...
During the past six weeks Punch has published a few genteel quips on electioneering, a few more about "flapper voters," a few jokes based on heckling in mass meetings. Beyond that there has been no reference to the elections...
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...