Flappers' Dictionary (September 1922): An antedating: "bee's ankles"

[Sam Clements]

More from the Elyria(OH) cite for "flapper dictionary."(1922)

       The bee's ankles:  All right, very good.

(Wow!)  HDAS has "Bee's knees" from 1923.  Guess the phrase was moving 'up'
in the world from its start.

Also, perhaps another antedating:

              The Elyria paper has "Slummers:  Girls who
               attend studio parties."

I doubt that they were there for philanthropic or charitable purposes.  So
this may be an antedating.  I'll leave it to Jesse to figure out.






----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Clements" <sclements at NEO.RR.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: Flappers' Dictionary (September 1922): "blouse" (to
go);"sweetie"


> A further note about the 1922 "flapper dictionary."
>
> It must have been an actual book as I can find cites in multiple
newspapers
> from 1922, using ancestry.com, citing words and their meanings from a
> "flapper dictionary."
>
> Latest one of interest, though not an antedating, was from the Eyria(OH)
> Chronicle Telegram.
>
> Crasher:  An uninvited guest.
>
> HDAS has the same meaning only from 1921(Variety).
>
> SC
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sam Clements" <sclements at NEO.RR.COM>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 6:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Flappers' Dictionary (September 1922): "blouse" (to
> go);"sweetie"
>
>
> > In the same year(1922) and in the same state(IL), using ancestry.com,
the
> > Decatur(IL) Review has an ad saying:
> >      Boys' Khaki flapper Suits, 89cents
> >     So much wanted two-piece suits , blouse and pants in flapper
> > style...........89 cents.
> >
> > What do you make of that?
> > SC
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at UMR.EDU>
> > To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 3:02 PM
> > Subject: Re: Flappers' Dictionary (September 1922): "blouse" (to
> > go);"sweetie"
> >
> >
> > > Two items in the 1922 Flappers' Dictionary caught my attention:
> > > 1) "blouse"--Why does "Let's blouse" mean "Let's go"? -- I don't see
> this
> > term in HDAS or Jonathon Green's _Cassell's Dictionary of Slang_.
> > >
> > > 2) "Sweetie"--anything a flapper hates. -- Cf. Ellen Goodman's
> syndicated
> > column today: "California--Arnold goes mano-a-womano' big mistake." e.g.
> in
> > St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 9/28/2003, sec. B, p. 3/1.
> > > The article concerns Schwarzenegger's comments to Arianna Huffington
in
> > the debate a few days ago.. Goodman writes: "We know how you
> > [Schwarzennegger] bragged about creating this scene to Entertainment
> Weekly
> > last July: 'How many times do you get away with taking a woman and
burying
> > her face in a toilet bowl?'" Now this? [His debate-comments to
> Huffington].
> > >     "Arnold, sweetheart, get yourself rewrite."
> > >
> > > Gerald Cohen
> > >
> > > -----Original Message----- (from Barry Popik, 9/27/2003)
> > >  14 September 1922, EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER (Edwardsville,
Illinois),
> > > pg. 4?, col. 4:
> > > OFFICE CAT
> > > BY JUNIUS
> > > COPYRIGHT 1921 BY EDGAR ALLAN MOSE.
> > >    _The Flappers' Dictionary._
> > > ...
> > > Blouse:  To go, as, "Let's blouse."
> > > ...
> > > Sweetie:  Anybody a flapper hates.
> > > ...
> > >
> >
>