flapper
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The comedian-actor is developing a film about the animated icon and will star as the doe-eyed flapper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Fans dressed in approximations of her floaty ballgowns and 1920s flapper dresses, hollering lyrics like mantras.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
Now, suddenly, he was handed a microphone and enlisted as a simultaneous translator for Karel Lamač’s uproarious Jazz Age comedy about a proper Viennese girl who goes wild as a flapper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
Nicks strolled in later, fresh from her stint at Clementine’s and still donning her flapper costume.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025
“Now he’s got his eye on us. Now we got to be careful and not make no slips. You keep your big flapper shut after this.”
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
Jazz ruled the airwaves and flappers ruled fashion.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2024
Next steps from the robotics perspective will include working with material scientists to equip the flappers with muscle-like materials.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2023
In what ways were flappers a reaction to World War I?
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Lurking behind the era’s glitzy flappers and Wall Street speculators was a collective trauma of both the war and the pandemic.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2022
Go play with the autos and the flappers.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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