Word: flapperisms
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...Darlington, Bishop of Harrisburg, who recently advanced 13 peculiar "joys" which young men could secure by taking Holy Orders (TIME, Feb. 20), spoke, in Manhattan upon this topic: The Holy Comforter, or Vision and Supervision. Said he: "We have many saints in our higher offices today . . . there are many flapper saints in short skirts. . . . We should all try to get back to the childhood spirit. . . ." In addition, Bishop Darlington asserted that only one person in 500 communes "directly" with the Holy Ghost; that he would introduce jazz music into services if he thought it would bring many people into church...
...Eighth Act. The son, grown potent, rows on his college eight. Watching from the expensive Evans yacht are Nina, her three men, and a flapper in love with her son. She hates the flapper about to take her son; jealously tries as did her own father to smash the match. Son wins the race. Stoutly successful, Sam dies of apoplexy...
...Ninth Act. Son and flapper disappear to start life together. Darrell is finally sent away forever. Grey-haired Nina, grey-haired Marsden subside into the painless decay of dreams through which so many live when useful life is done...
Lucien Lelong: Gowns of intricate cut, moulding and revealing the curved lines of the figure, executed in subdued light shades. Said M. Lelong, last week: "Woman returns to the elegant, poised, long-limbed, distinguished figure. She abandons with relief the bony, jazzy flapper figure, evoked by the aftermath of War hysteria...
Ridiculous. The girl was no....ahem..."flapper". Those clear eyes were to transparently frank to habour double meanings, or shall we call it double entente? Was she a philosopher?....Did that noble brow shield an intellect comparable to her outward beauty?..Was this her philosophy of life...