"FLAPPERS."
» —— ORIGIN OF WORD. (BY CABLE-tPBBBS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT). (AUSTRALIAN' AND ' X.l. CABLS A880CIATIOK.) (Received November 4th; 8;35 p.m:) LONDON, November 3; ' . The Dowager-Countess Jersey, speaking, ai the Council of the Primrose League, disclosed the origin of the -word "flappers." She said that.she found the word in "Gulliver's Travels," where flappers were persons armed, with bladders filled with peas attached to sticks, whose function was to stir up lethargic and. unobservant men. Lady Jersey hoped that women politicians would follow the example of those flappers. ?
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19150, 5 November 1927, Page 19
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