Word: fop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...character who cries "young fop" at the famed son of an honored father...
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Navy: "One Fred B. Smith called me a 'young fop at a meeting of the Citizens' Committee of 1,000 in Manhattan. Said he: 'I understand he is wet as the Atlantic Ocean, and if the young fop tries any of that business in New York he may rest assured that we will teach him the law as satisfactorily and with as much emphasis as his father would have done.' Federal Prohibition Commissioner Haynes and Bishop William T. Manning were among those seated on the platform...