Word: flapperisms
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...sample of the only cocktail recommended. "The grapefruit juice is for health," explained TV's Eloise McElhone, "and the gin is for sin." Quickly downing one himself, Dietitian Hauser strode to the microphone, proudly announced that Mrs. Betty Henderson, café society's 75-year-old flapper, had just marveled: "I met you 31 years ago and you still aren't fat!" "I hope," he added, "I shall never be." But when he asked his table companion to "say a few kind words - can you?", Paulette Goddard obliged with just two: "I'm hungry...
Neither Sir Ernest nor his heir needs fear that the prime source of the dynasty's power will ever diminish. One of the first great Randlords, old Barney Barnato, put it tersely, many years before Flapper Lorelei Lee: "Women are born every day, and men will always buy diamonds for women...
...Gossard soon ran into one ideal figure that he hadn't bargained for: the boyish form of the '20s, when many a flapper discarded her corsets entirely, and some even wore tight bindings to flatten out their bosoms. Some corsetiers folded under this frontal assault. Not only did the Gossard company survive (Founder Henry retired in 1923) by turning out the flimsiest excuses for girdles, but it even bought out six competitors to form Associated Apparel Industries, Inc., then the biggest outfit in the business...
...products. And they know that Godfrey's fooling around with a ukulele on the air pumped new life into an industry that had been dormant since the early 1930s. Said uke salesman Jack Loeb: "Sales went from nothing to higher than they had been even in the 'flapper' days . . . We can't keep enough ukuleles in stock...
...gold-digging Lorelei Lee in the new musical version of Anita Loos's famed bestseller of the '20s, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, strapping (5 ft. 9 in., 153 Ibs.) Carol Channing is ludicrously miscast. Her head, topped by an unruly peroxide burlesque of a flapper's hairdo, seems too small for her generous features. Set insecurely on the top of a columnar neck and broad, sloping shoulders wrapped in the shapeless fashions of two decades ago, it gives her the appearance of an amiable performing seal; and like a seal she seems naively anxious to please...