Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Show Girl, Actress Channing is at her best doing what first won her praise on Broadway: she spoofs the sillier musicomedies of the '20s till every inanity glitters, and with a magic that in the very act of murdering old musicals can bring them back to life. Today's grim musical dramas are not as funny targets, nor has Carol as fine a touch for them, but her Switchblade Bess, at least, has inspired moments. If much of Show Girl rather smacks of family jokes, it is at any rate a well-known family-Marlene Dietrich, Sophie Tucker...
Died. Anne Meredith Bigelow, who never revealed her age (about 70), a Broadway chorine of the '20s who married the fourth Baron Sackville, became mistress of an 8,000-acre estate and a cavernous Tudor mansion with 365 rooms, 52 staircases, seven courtyards; of a heart attack; at the family seat, Knole, Kent...
...included in the new, that the language was sufficiently dignified for reading aloud, and that the modern expressions used would not be out of date in 50 years. Example: the King James "den of thieves" did not become "gangsters' hideout" only because it was thought that the '20s expression might not last long enough. The compromise: "robbers' cave...
...always so. In the duster-and-goggle days of 50 years ago, Argentines by the thousands lurched happily over unpaved cowpaths in Renaults, Packards, and Benzes. In the '20s, Model T Fords were assembled in Argentina, and in 1938, Buenos Aires, Latin America's most motorized city, held its "First International Auto Salon," featuring 60 of the latest models from around the world. Then came World War II, followed by Peron, protectionism and austerity. Argentina was gradually transformed into a land of jalopies, museum pieces and three-wheeled bubble buggies...
Trumpets from the Steep, by Diana Cooper. Lady Diana has the delightful ability to make real people seem like Waugh characters, but there is a touch of sadness to the third volume of her autobiography, in which the brightest of the Bright Young People of the '20s says goodbye to her generation...