flapper
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Dagwood Bumstead was the scion of a rich family that disowned him when he married Blondie, a flapper — forcing him to take an office job under the irascible J.C.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025
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
President Donald Trump hosted a “Great Gatsby” themed party for Halloween, complete with tuxedos, flapper dresses, jazz covers and cocktails that evoked the opulence of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Roaring Twenties.
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025
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
She wore a short green flapper dress fringed at the hemline.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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