Word: 1920s
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...pogo stick, on which children of ;the 1920s hopped like human valve stems, was back. It was now precision built of hollow aluminum tubing and boasted an adjustable, double-action spring...
...amid the smoke and sound of great events, into a new kind of era. Many a citizen had assumed that the U.S., having experienced the century's second world war and its second era of Democratic Administration, would automatically run through a kind of repeat performance of the 1920s. Actually, the dissimilarities between the two periods were striking...
...first and most celebrated case of stigmatization was St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226). Since then at least 341 cases have been recorded, 300 of them women. Most famous 20th Century case was Theresa Neumann, a German, of Konnersreuth, whose bleeding wounds were witnessed by thousands during the 1920s-303s and became the object of scientific study and investigation...
...Louis Disbrow, dirt-track racing star of the 1920s...
...Bacall) and hotelkeeper father (Lionel Barrymore) of his best friend, who died in battle. He finds them the virtual prisoners of a gangster named Rocco (Edward G. Robinson), his gunmen (Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, Dan Seymour) and his wretched mistress (Claire Trevor). These interlopers are living ghosts of the 1920s, slipping back into the U.S. from Cuba. Barring the pathetic-mistress, who is half drowned in liquor, they are mortally dangerous people...