flapper
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“The first comic I found was by Rose O’Neill from 1896,” said Robbins, whose forthcoming book is called The Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age.
From The Guardian • Apr. 29, 2020
Dangerous and Funny: She’s Still a Flapper The flapper — the tough-talking party girl with bobbed hair, a spangled headband and a shocking disdain for propriety — may be an archetype associated with the 1920s.
From New York Times • May 22, 2012
PS: it was a treat last night to look at the Flapper display with the costume collection curator…excellent touch!
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2010
Look out for Rachel Adams's Flapper, an obelisk decked in ribbons that seems half good-time girl and half Cousin Itt.
From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2010
Tia and Plip Flapper, the Stormville witch, waited on the other side of the finish line, crouched down, screaming support for each of their toads.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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