flapper
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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
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
I dug through my room until I found the flapper headband I’d worn on Halloween.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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