Word: flippant
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...Martini. People who have never poisoned their bodies with alcohol will find in this film, written by John Thomas, a highly immoral presentation of what happens when a young U. S. femme goes to the Ritz Bar. The furnishings of that bar, human and material, and the somewhat flippant spirit of a father who has been abroad so long he does not recognize his daughter, permit a situation in which probably for the first time in cinema history a good young man is smacked when he tries to correct the morals of a bad young...
When one speaks of "Lady Peel'' one correctly refers to either: 1) Ella Viscountess Peel, prim; or 2) Beatrice Lillie, flippant. It was the latter Lady Peel, of course, who recently originated the jest of calling every U. S. citizen residing west of Manhattan a "Middlie Westie...
Ironic, too, was a story in the Atlanta Constitution about diverticulosis published the very day Strong died. An ignorant reporter chose to be lengthily flippant in describing the contours of intestinal abscesses as shown on X-ray plates...
...collection includes a little of the patter, more of the lyric wisdom, and several of her compact sonnets. The patter is less flippant...
While I am not a subscriber to your magazine, which I find very interesting except when it becomes flippant with religion, I often buy it at newsstands and have been impressed with your "inside" information. For this reason perhaps you can answer a question that has perplexed me for some time. Unless my memory has failed me, it is ten or fifteen years since the Rev. William ("Billy") Sunday, the famous evangelist, has been in New York. Now I think this would be a fine time for him to come to New York, because of the prohibition raids on "night...