Word: 1920s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Samuel and Isadore Horvitz were quietly turning asphalt into gold as Ohio paving contractors, back in the 1920s, when a newspaper publisher attacked their bid for a city contract. The Horvitz brothers decided that the way to answer Publisher Raymond Cyrus Hoiles was to go into the newspaper business them selves, in competition with Hoiles's papers in Lorain (pop. 44,000) and Mansfield (pop. 37,000). By 1930 the contractors had won their fight. Publisher Hoiles,† who had made many enemies by his violent attacks on schools, churches and unions, sold out his Lorain and Mansfield papers...
Nights Are for Sleeping. At 16, Shirley May France is too young to remember the 1920s, but she was making U.S. oldsters remember mah-jongg and miniature golf, This Side of Paradise, the Black Bottom and peephole speakeasies. Specifically, Shirley May intended to swim the English Channel, and, if possible, to break the women's record of 14 hrs. 31 min. set by Gertrude ("Trudy") Ederle in 1926. Since Trudy did it (and won a shower of Manhattan's pre-depression ticker tape),* other women have occasionally tried to beat her time. Only last week a 31-year...
...story of Jay Gatsby-World War I hero, millionaire bootlegger, and misguided idealist-is the story of a fabulous epoch, the 1920s. As Fitzgerald told it, it was also a spiritual history of those young Americans who from disillusionment, boredom, or the simple sense of belonging nowhere and to nothing, called themselves the "lost generation." The story of the movie is largely a story of bad casting. In the role of Gatsby, which calls for extraordinary warmth and a wide range of mood, Alan Ladd looks about as comfortable as a gunman at a garden party. Betty Field, though...
...works first attracted critical attention in the 1920s...
...violence of the scramble for the flowers came under severe attack late in the century, and was finally abolished in 1899. The Tree Exercises remained in watered down form until late in the 1920s. For a time, the tree was the scene of unofficial ceremonies built around a dirty story contest; women were strictly barred, but many of them used to sneak late the lower floors of Yard buildings and listen in through half-closed windows. This too was finally forbidden...