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...1920s the Scopes trial enacted the collision between the moral universe of older, agricultural America, where the Bible held authority, and the new urban, secular-humanist nation wherein H.L. Mencken was God. The Sacco-Vanzetti trial stirred up all of America's agitations about immigration, anarchy and the Red Menace...
...imperial family's murder was only one horrifying moment in an unfinished saga. Shortly after officials in Moscow announced that the Czar had been shot (there was no immediate mention of his family), rumors arose that some or even all of the royals had managed to escape. In the 1920s, Europe and America were almost awash with fraudulent Romanov wannabes, several of them demanding access to a huge fortune that Nicholas had allegedly secreted abroad...
...Elie Nadelman, Odilon Redon, Watteau, Hieronymus Bosch and an over-the-top capriccio of swimmers in some celestial spa titled Natatorium Undine, 1927. Her painting of a spring sale at Henri Bendel's, with ladies squabbling over the merchandise like angry hummingbirds, resembles a Pompeian grotesque translated into the 1920s. She liked caricature too. In the Cathedrals, the series of New York historical-satirical-puzzle pictures that she considered her crowning works, she uses cartoonish labels to sew the message together. In Cathedrals of Wall Street, 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt, the woman Stettheimer most admired, is seen with Fiorello La Guardia...
...antique fielders' gloves and catchers' masks. He is also the co-author, along with LIFE managing editor Daniel Okrent, of Baseball Anecdotes (Oxford University Press; 1989). In that compendium, now considered a classic, the authors called Lou Gehrig's record of playing in 2,130 consecutive games during the 1920s and 1930s "unapproachable." Wulf does deserve credit for spotting Ripken's ability, if not his potential as an endurance champ, back in 1982, when the rookie was still in spring training. "He'll make people notice him," Wulf wrote at the time, quoting an Orioles coach...
...what was put there by Alfred Eisenstaedt. When he died last week at 96, he left behind one of the great lyric troves of modern photography. An incomparable photojournalist, "Eisie'' helped to make LIFE an indispensable scrapbook of the national memory. And even before that, in the 1920s, when many people still believed cameras could only take dictation, he had figured out their potential for poetry...