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
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
Sam Gallagher and Yash Thakkar, both English majors, dub her Jordan—after the flapper and semipro golfer in “The Great Gatsby”—when they learn that she gave up a golf scholarship her freshman year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
She also didn’t style her hair in a flapper bob, but instead let her long, black hair flow over her back, revealing her striking face, with its high cheekbones and big brown eyes.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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
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
I think flappers and waifs could feel the impending doom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
The machine men tumbled down the stairs, and Leo forced them to jitterbug like 1920s flappers.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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