flapper
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Fans dressed in approximations of her floaty ballgowns and 1920s flapper dresses, hollering lyrics like mantras.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
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
“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
To replicate the columnar formations of birds, in which they line up one directly behind the other, the researchers created mechanized flappers that act like birds' wings.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024
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
I think flappers and waifs could feel the impending doom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
The joke, in each instance, begins with the words “Hully gee!” supposedly uttered by one of the flappers.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2019
At one point, the dancers appeared dressed as flappers, twirling wildly to jazzy music.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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