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Updated: June 14, 2025
It seemed the height of folly to work for the race if the race was like this: men who, if they had dignity, looked cold and inaccessible to fine disastrous causes; men who were without dignity and base as monkeys; mountainous old men who looked bland because the crevices of their expressions had been filled up with fat, but who showed in the glares they gave her and her papers an immense expertness in coarse malice; hen-like genteel women with small mouths and mean little figures that tried for personality with trimmings and feather boas and all other adornments irrelevant to the structure of the human body; flappers who swung scarlet bows on their plaits and otherwise assailed their Presbyterian environment by glad cries of the appearance; and on all these faces the smirk of superior sagacity that vulgar people give to the untriumphant ideal.
Fat women who'd left the twins at home with the neighbor's cook in order that they might have a good cry at the Concorde these were his mutton-heads. He reeled slightly as several flappers passed just for practise. Ten days on Blackwell's hadn't spoiled his form. They drew away from him; yet, from their manners, he knew that they did not suspect him of being drunk.
The heart under the fluffy frock she slipped on to-night was not so heavy as the one under the white gown worn that day when she stood by Win in the Manor library and watched the boat for St. Malo leave the harbor. Frances and Edith were ready when she came for them, also prettily dressed in white. "Nice little English flappers," Constance remarked approvingly.
"Well, there was Mystery," the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers "Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: he taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils." "What was that like?" said Alice. "Well, I can't show it you, myself," the Mock Turtle said: "I'm too stiff.
"Yes," said Jesse, "if we had only thought of it last week, they probably would not have been able to fly at all flappers, they call those young birds. Then we might possibly have killed some of them in the grass at the head of the lagoon."
Each fiance had the lordly impression that he "possessed" the lady of his choice. And the minute the male feels that he possesses a woman, he can get all the psychology of "riding away" and leaving her. Our Freudian flappers are better strategians. Man simply can't labor under the impression that he possesses a young person, if her lingo is calling the once sacred kiss just a "flash of pash."
Three evenings of the week were devoted to opera, the others to drama. The first Kapellmeister was a middle-aged man whose curly hair made him the idol of all flappers. He was lazy, uncultivated, and his name was Lebrecht. The director was an old stager who referred to the public about as a disrespectful footman refers to his lord.
Then he got in an awful wax and said: O you wretched flappers, I've gone and blabbed it all now, and he went away slamming the door, for Mother wasn't there. October 19th. If we could only find out what Oswald really did. It must have been something with a girl. But we can't think what Father meant about a married woman.
The whole strength of gossip consists in selecting one member of the clan for calumny, to stand out disgraced and alone among her exemplary sisters. Because the flappers had been gossiped about en masse, the whole reason for not being gossiped about had ceased. The poacher of that half generation ago had been the kind of a girl who stalked her game alone.
One of them had even exited, uttering a fatal accusation about a "trammelled soul." Such a warning calls for a taking of stock. And this is what I found: Because of the flappers and the way they run shop, the whole technique of the man game has changed. My method, alas, had become as out of style as a pompadour Gibson hat.
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