flapper

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“It,” employed in this way, first appeared in a 1927 novella by Elinor Glyn, which became a silent film starring the red-haired flapper Clara Bow, arguably history’s first “It Girl.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Even in the 1920s, there were high-profile flapper divorces and, everybody's like, oh my God, society is crumbling.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2024

The team made two robots: a large flapper robot modeled after a moth to better understand how the wings worked, which they deployed in water.

From Science Daily • Oct. 4, 2023

Clara Bow said once: “All the time the flapper is laughing and dancing, there’s a feeling of tragedy underneath. She’s unhappy and disillusioned, and that’s what people sense.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2022

She put a bowl on my head, cut off all the hair beneath it, and told me I looked like a flapper.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls