From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #15854 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Monday, April 7 2025 Volume 14 : Number 15854 Today's Subjects: ----------------- You have won a Walmart - Blackstone Original 4-Burner ["Walmart Confirmat] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 09:53:59 +0200 From: "Walmart Confirmation" Subject: You have won a Walmart - Blackstone Original 4-Burner You have won a Walmart - Blackstone Original 4-Burner http://rumpkoozi.pro/8I213K_n6T5I4c8eWPX8Mw6dOelCrpcv4Zwlnp0giNqvw4VSsQ http://rumpkoozi.pro/U7V2pEiohR8raYi24MoeWzLXIh1yHcsxs6amPe8Q3EDi1OitEw ard non-slang usage appeared in print as early as 1903 in England and 1904 in the United States, when novelist Desmond Coke used it in his college story of Oxford life, Sandford of Merton: "There's a stunning flapper". In 1907, English actor George Graves explained it to Americans as theatrical slang for acrobatic young female stage performers. The flapper was also known as a dancer, who danced like a birdbflapping her arms while doing the Charleston move. This move became quite a competitive dance during this era. By 1908, newspapers as serious as The Times used the term, although with careful explanation: "A 'flapper', we may explain, is a young lady who has not yet been promoted to long frocks and the wearing of her hair 'up'". In April 1908, the fashion section of London's The Globe and Traveller contained a sketch entitled "The Dress of the Young Girl" with the following explanation: Americans, and those fortunate English folk whose money and status permit them to go in freely for slang terms ... call the subject of these lines the 'flapper.' The appropriateness of this term does not move me to such whole-hearted admiration of the amazing powers of enriching our language which the Americans modestly acknowledge they possess ..., in fact, would scarcely merit the honour of a moment of my attention, but for the fact that I seek in vain for any other expression that is understood to signify that important young person, the maiden of some sixteen years. The sketch is of a girl in a frock with a long skirt, "which has the waistline quite high and semi-Empire, ... quite untrimmed, its plainness being relieved by a sash knotted carelessly aro ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #15854 ***********************************************