How To Use 1920s In A Sentence

As far back as the 1920s, it was an easy getaway for Hollywood types looking for a little privacy; and this golden era lives on at select spots.
Up until the 1920s, in the mountain ranges of Westmoreland and south into Fayette, many small farmers subsisted on bear meat, preferable to venison, and considered by many to be juicier and better than beef.
This antimodernist nativism pervaded the 1920s, but it was particularly visible in the scientific racism of the eugenics movement, the xenophobia of the "100 percent American" movement, the sharp resurgence in the Ku Klux Klan, the post – World War One Red Scare (directed primarily at immigrant radicals), and in a series of draconian immigration restriction acts. 11 Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
What began as a cheap and easy way to disguise the taste of alcohol in prohibition America quickly became the drink of choice for the privileged fast set of the 1920s.
Zoning's underlying presumptions were also more aligned with an ideological shift in the planning profession during the 1920s.

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He amassed similar collections of American advertising of the 1920s, plus grangerized Shakespeare, Burns, etc.
I hope the renovations don't eliminate one of NYC's last remaining "wheelie" stoplights from the 1920s... Central Park Police Station to Be Made Stable
During her heyday from the 1920s to the 1930s, unconventional artist Carmen Mondragón was demonized in much the same way as the fire-breathing creature of legends past. The Fiery Spirit Of Carmen Mondragon
The way in which the various issues that come to light here connect to the question of world, transcendence, and the conceallng-unconcealing of truth is somewhat tangled, and, in the period of the late 1920s, and even into the early 1930s, is not yet clearly worked out in Heldegger’s thinking. Enowning
It became convenient to account for shifts in Freud's work by focusing on his early reliance on drawing and to cite the influence of painters from northern Europe such as Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Albrecht Dürer, or even to suggest a false comparison with the Neue Sachlichkeit painters active in Germany in the 1920s but unknown to the young Freud and overlook others as relevant as Paul Cézanne and Chaim Soutine. Lucian Freud obituary
It gives a detailed insight into the troubled times in the early part of the 1920s when members of some families took opposite sides in the Civil War.
Until the 1920s, the most accurate timepieces depended on the regular swing of a pendulum.
Even after the stagecoach era - until the 1920s - it was the starting point for horse-drawn wagonette outings.
A student of Dalcroze eurhythmics in New York and Paris, Talmud was one of the most important dance teachers at the Playhouse from the early 1920s into the 1940s. Dance Performance in the United States.
Though cross-island expressways had been envisioned by the Regional Plan Association in the 1920s, it was in the postwar years that the megalomaniacal urban planner Robert Moses made Lomex — a proposed 200-foot-wide swath along Broome Street requiring the demolition of buildings housing at least 1,972 families and 804 businesses — the centerpiece of his vision to modernize New York. Indignation Superhighway
The shops, each retaining many original 1920s art-deco features such as tiling, 'sunburst' lights and engraved glass features are time capsules of suburban shopping from nearly a century ago. Archive 2008-05-01
Zeit Opern" – operas of the time – were a common feature of Germany in the 1920s, when Hindemith wrote a media comedy called Neues vom Tage (News of the Day), and even Schoenberg attempted a (very unfunny) comedy called Heute Oder Morgen (Today or Tomorrow). I predict a riot
In the 1920s, they were leaders in a series of bloody strikes that crippled Hawaiian sugar cane growers.
Naturalization rates increased during the 1920s, but the next decade was marked by a political watershed.
Not much has changed since the 1920s, and walking into the lobby, with ornate Ottoman furniture and arabesque tiles, is like stepping into an Agatha Christie novel.
This one concerns a 1920s military pilot who fell victim to a spell that (for reasons that are never adequately explained) transformed him into a half-human, half-pig. 2010 January : Scrubbles.net
Throughout the 1920s and the early 1930s, Fighter Command (as it eventually came to be called) was the Cinderella of the Air Ministry. 'With Wings Like Eagles'
In the 1920s, when Evarts Graham, the renowned surgeon in St. Louis who had pioneered the pneumonectomy the resection of the lung to remove tumors, was asked whether tobacco smoking had caused the increased incidence of lung cancer, he countered dismissively, “So has the use of nylon stockings.” The Emperor of All Maladies
The pale, watery crisphead variety known as iceberg triumphed in the United States due to a combination of its durability in shipping and storage—it brought lettuce to the American table year-round in the 1920s—and its refreshing, crunchy-wet texture. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
The house was a relic of Florida construction from the 1920s, a small wood-frame building raised on short concrete pilings.
From the 1920s sports reporting and photography was accepted as a crucial and specialized component of popular journalism.
He plays the lead in a remake of the 1920s comedy classic.
Surrealist artists in the 1920s sought equivalents to automatic writing, e.g. André Masson's free ink drawings, Max Ernst's frottages, or Joan Miró's field painting.
In the beginning, Mickey's head and body were simple circle shapes and his limbs resembled rubber hoses, a design cloned from Felix the Cat, the reigning toon superstar of the 1920s.
In the 1920s, lead was added to petrol, and this addition allowed vehicles to reach higher speeds without engine knock.
Blacks in large numbers started leaving the South for northern urban centers in the 1920s.
Since then, Wilford had built a gyroplane, a machine similar to an Autogiro, based on a design he had bought during a visit to Germany in the 1920s. The Dream Machine
However, anarchism remained an influential competitor to the Communist movement until well into the late 1920s.
In the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan wielded enormous influence within the national Democratic Party.
Collier's book is the story of a young man trying to find love and success in bohemian London in the 1920s. MIND MELD: Non-Genre Books for Genre Readers
Though the arrangement seems at first to be a chronological one, dating from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, the grouping is actually methodological.
Although she died relatively young, Mills was an inventive influence in the worlds of both jazz and ragtime in the 1920s.
By only reproducing sounds that were audible to human hearing, the company managed to quadruple its capacity by the 1920s. The Times Literary Supplement
Open landfills had attracted negative publicity in the 1920s and 1930s and for the most part had been cleaned up.
This was the African American artistic movement of the 1920s which celebrated black life and culture.
Some of the designs are decidedly Art Deco, which is an appealing style from the 1920s. KeysNews.com -
Many Tlingits since the 1920s have won seats in the Territorial legislature, setting in motion Tlingit involvement in all aspects of politics and government.
From its humble beginnings as a coconut plantation to a popular playground for the rich in the 1920s to a Mecca for the elderly in the '80s, the "Sun and Fun Capital" outdoes even the queen of reinvention herself, Madonna. Jerry Libbin: Miami Beach Has Found Its Niche
In retrospect we can see LeÅniewski's obsession with the fine detail of axiomatics and his rejection of semantics as conditioned by his own idiosyncratic development and the predominant research interests of the 1910s and 1920s. StanisÅaw LeÅniewski
Churchill was right all along: he had observed Hitler closely in the 1920s, and understood something unchangeable, constant, within him.
Most of the settlers arrived in Jalan Raja Uda in the 1920s and 1930s from Kwangchow, a sub-provincial city that is the capital of Guangdong province in southern China. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
Known as the “Statue of Libby,” she carried one of the smokiest torches of American music hall society in the 1920s and 1930s, and was the inventor of the strapless evening dress. Libby Holman.
A Conservative MP, he maintained in the 1920s that Conservatism was "above all things a spirit, not an abstract doctrine."
The word "homeostatic," adopted in cybernetics for feedback systems in general, originated in 1920s human physiology to name self-regulation of body fluids, digestion, and metabolism. [ Minding the Brain
Encouraged by the economic difficulties of the 1920s, the party system began to fragment as political groups sought to represent the particular interests of their constituencies.
The harmonica is a staple of American blues, beginning with the Memphis jug bands of the 1920s. NPR Topics: News
In the 1910s and 1920s, most of the 200,000 African men employed in gold-mining lived in vast single-sex compounds.
H.E. Bates, in his book The Modern Short Story, first published in 1941, noted that even in the 1920s and '30s it was said that the short story was unwanted, unprinted, and unread.
Perhaps it was as well that continental drift was so profoundly unfashionable in the 1920s and 1930s. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
One is white muslin from the 1920s and the other red satin from the 1970s, and they terrify me.
From the 1920s sports reporting and photography was accepted as a crucial and specialized component of popular journalism.
In one shop, I unearthed a wonderful collection of 1920s toys.
We're trying to recapture the romance of flight as it was in the 1920s or 30s, when flight used to be terribly exciting.
When Coco Chanel started the craze for suntans in the 1920s, only those who could afford to head for warmer shores were able to indulge in the new fashion.
Already in the 1920s the president of American Tobacco realised he could interest women in cigarettes by selling them as a fat-free way to satisfy hunger. Smoke and minors
The refined and leisured lifestyle from the 1920s and 1930s can be relived when viewers appreciate the varied designs of their mandarin gowns and the way they made themselves up.
Little Caesar and Scarface were based on the life of Al Capone, and The Public Enemy told a fictionalized account of the life of Hymie Weiss, the leader of a major Jewish gang of the 1920s. A Renegade History of the United States
Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal 'Ruhlmann' by Florence Camard Rizzoli From the book 'Ruhlmann' by Florence Camard/Rizzoli Reuter table with shagreen and ivory marquetry From the book 'Ruhlmann' by Florence Camard/Rizzoli Collectionneur chest in black lacquer No designer has come to stand for the glamorous 1920s and '30s more definitively than Jacques Émile Ruhlmann, with his exquisite marquetry of ivory and rare woods, sumptuous textiles and gleaming metal accents. All Hands on Deco
Zalts was someone of varied interests and during the 1920s, not only did he publish on mechanical calculators, statistics and nomography (graphic representation of data), but he also published on folklore, education, and philosophy.
It has lavish 1920s costumes and boneshaker cars. Times, Sunday Times
Eschewing the brilliant primaries of his still lifes of the 1920s, he limits himself to only a few colours, creating a tonal harmony closer perhaps to the work of fellow Iona painter George Houston than to the other colourists.
By only reproducing sounds that were audible to human hearing, the company managed to quadruple its capacity by the 1920s. The Times Literary Supplement
Though "dop" payments were banned in the 1920s, the system carried on in many rural zones until apartheid ended in 1994. ANC Daily News Briefing
When Suzanne Lenglen, the predictably glamorous French tennis star of the 1920s often dressed by Jean Patou, wore a knee-length dress with three-quarter sleeves to win Wimbledon in 1919, she opened the flood gates of "risqué" tennis fashion, which soon included Helen Jacobs in shorts at Forest Hills in 1933 and Gussy Moran in those much-photographed lace knickers beneath her tennis skirt at Wimbledon in 1949. Serving an Ace on the Courts
In the 1920s British historian Charles Grey savaged the American adventurer as an unhinged embellisher at best, a liar at worst.
Word combination often leads to strings of adjectives and attributive nouns, a style that began in Time magazine in the 1920s, with the aim of providing impact and ‘colour’.
The stock market crash in the 1920s left him impecunious, however, and his attempt to make a mark as a painter came to little.
Ken Loach's tale of two Irish brothers caught up in the IRA during the 1920s is hectoringly anti-English, but a powerful, poignant film none the less. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
In the late 1920s and through the 30s, Ron Masters was excelling off the springboard and highboard. The Advertiser
For a time, beginning in the 1920s, fox fur trading served as a supplement to subsistence.
The furniture, mainly bought in the 1920s and 1930s, includes an early George III mahogany breakfront bookcase estimated at £7,000 to £10,000 and other pieces by Gillows.
By the end of the 1920s, according to one study, Jews were barred from 90 percent of white-collar jobs in New York City. A Renegade History of the United States
Distributist and subsidiarist ideas, encouraging guilds and associations, flourished for a time in 1920s Italy in the form of Mussolini's early corporatism.
Spend nights exaggerating your catch over Scotch and bunking in vintage 1920s Pullman cars.
The family holdings were divided among six sons in the 1920s, with the largest tracts going to the sons of Richard Skinner and Chester Skinner.
From its start in the 1920s, it was a hobby - an amusing interpretation of American hobos and cowpokes.
There was a large increase in cod abundance and catches in the 1920s (Fig. 13.15), and other gadids, such as saithe, haddock, tusk, and ling, previously rare or absent at Greenland, also appeared there in the 1920s and 1930s. Fisheries and aquaculture in the Central North Atlantic (Iceland and Greenland)
In the 1920s, Ireland had a Boundary Committee that drew the border between North and South.
The window soffits and ceiling medallion were made from the plaster casts acquired by the Metropolitan Museum in the 1920s.
And in the 20th century, we shortened that to bunk, and in the 1920s, someone came up with the term debunk as an antidote to bunk. America In So Many Words
The art deco movement became a dominant style in art, architecture and design during the 1920s and '30s.
Her luxurious screens, richly evocative objects in lacquer and striking modernist standalone pieces look as innovative today as they did during the 1920s and 1930s when her career was at its height.
Since launching in February, Vênsette's clients—among them model Elettra Wiedemann, designer Genevieve Jones and Princess Grace of Monaco's granddaughter Charlotte Casiraghi—have picked from the site's popular coiffures, including Siren (a nod to 1920s glam) and Tribeca (a polished ponytail), and makeup looks such as CEO (subtle smoky eyes) and Sun-Kissed (a perfect natural glow). Beauty On Demand
Gradually, in the way that wealthy whites discovered the jazz clubs of Harlem in the 1920s, the aristocrats started hanging around the fado clubs.
Since the official repeal of corvée labor in the 1920s, settler employers had faced a dwindling supply of local workers.
Once the basic networks were in place, the economic and political convulsions of the 1920s and 1930s led to the second stage.
Growing up in the 1920s, his closest buddy was Fats Domino before his family relocated to Portland, Oregon, where Lee took up featherweight boxing.
Critics are happy to see the end of a uniform that they say was inspired partly by the European fascist movements of the 1920s. Times, Sunday Times
Development of chemical weapons was restrained in the 1920s by public outrage on moral grounds as well as protests from old-line army leaders on the basis of tradition and ineffectiveness.
The window soffits and ceiling medallion were made from the plaster casts acquired by the Metropolitan Museum in the 1920s.
He was also a Roman Catholic, which in the intolerant atmosphere of the 1920s was a distinct disadvantage.
Perhaps it was as well that continental drift was so profoundly unfashionable in the 1920s and 1930s. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
The financial crises of the 1920s and the Great Depression of the 1930s had brought capitalism to the edge of extinction.
If you want to read one chapter from an obscure textbook about Serbo-Croatian poetry in the 1920s, there might be five books on the subject, but 10 with chapters on the topic.
State-sponsored releases of mosquito fish were halted in the 1920s, but the fish are here to stay - and mosquitoes continue to flourish.
We're told the song is from a 1950 movie, so why the costume department dressed her in 1920s garb is beyond me.
Leixlip wanted to remember Matt Goff, a famous footballer from the 1920s, by naming a bridge after him. There Was No Beating Gough
Siegbahn had dominated Swedish physics with his authoritarian style since the 1920s, influencing university appointments and research orientations. Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
By the 1920S the former had won the day and landscape architects turned their talents to municipal projects.
In the black communities of the 1920s, funeral rites were both extremely important and rarely provided for financially.
When ‘I was a lad’ in the 1920s and 1930s, three activities were illegal on the canal towpaths - throwing stones, cycling and swimming.
However, until the 1920s, few local recipe books used the colloquial name, and then sometimes only as a subtitle.
During the depression of the 1920s and 1930s many men found it almost impossible to keep the wolf from the door.
Following the First World War, in the 1920s and early 1930s, the cocktail party flourished, with flappers and frivolity going hand in hand.
These prices would have been quite expensive in the 1920s, when a pint of bitter could be bought for five old pennies, or two pence in modern money.
But it was really the 1920s and 30s that amusement machines really took hold and machines like the one illustrating this article were commonplace in fairgrounds and amusement arcades all over the country.
They have reason to celebrate the largest number of Liberal seats since the 1920s.
Ragtime blues was the rootsy style of music played by American jug bands in the 1920s and 30s, and Ragweed take this style and add their own touch of north coast character.
Since the 1920s, the prevalence of goitre has decreased as iodised table salt became widely used.
Charges of blackmail peaked in the inter-war decades of the 1920s and 1930s and have been declining since.
I remember my granny had huge arms with tattoos because women in the 1920s used to go and get tattooed at the docks.
This dress, representative of the transition from 1920s to 1930s styles, is made of unlined panne velvet and is accompanied by a waist-length jacket of the same material.
The time is the 1920s, and Hurston the character is in town to collect local folklore.
Stalin was the unquestioned ruler of the Soviet Union from the late 1920s until his death in 1953.
Back in the 1920s keeping the clay road passable for bullock teams was a difficult matter.
The cursive rhythms and hot tonality of hot nudes of the 1920s recall Delacroix, Limited and even conventional in its Mediterranean genre, Smith's best work has great formal authority.
By the late 1920s, many business and labor leaders and academic economists believed that policies to keep wage rates high would maintain workers' level of purchasing, providing the "steadier" markets necessary to thwart economic contractions. Krugman's Hooverite View on Wages, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The term computing machine, used increasingly from the 1920s, refers to any machine that does the work of a human computer, i.e., any machine that calculates in accordance with effective methods. The Modern History of Computing
Ford lost the sales lead in the lucrative low-price field in the late 1920s to Chevrolet.
Her most satisfying accomplishment in this regard comes in the chapter on the ground rent strikes of the 1920s, which had a lasting effect in limiting the commercialization of urban landholding.
It did not help that the University of California at Davis, the Oxford and Cambridge of American oenological science, had shut down all its wine work during the 1920s. LAST CALL
The term adjuvant, from a Latin word meaning "to help," was coined in the 1920s by Gaston Ramon, a veterinarian at the Pasteur Institute in France, who observed that horses given diphtheria toxin had a stronger immune response if they had some inflammation at the injection site. NYT > Global Home
This ‘boyish’ and youthful ideal reigned during the 1920s, succeeded by a sensual and voluptuous ideal in the 1930s.
Amy Chua lives in New Haven, Conn., in an imposing mock-Tudor mansion — complete with gargoyles — that was built in the 1920s for a vaudeville impresario.
As Mr. Heneghan, 42, raked the strings of his vintage 1920s Kay Craft guitar and stomped his foot in time to the music, Ms. Brower, 38, strummed her nickel-plated brass ukulele, took solo turns on a plastic kazoo and belted out a set of nearly forgotten tunes. The Modern Sounds of Antique Music
Hua Hsu opens his essay with a look at some of the fears about racial encroachment that once prevailed among a certain cadre of scholarly white men in the 1920s: White America Reacts
They were designed by the artist in the late 1920s and the early 1930s.
Estimates advanced in late 1999 suggest a strong percentage increase over 1998 that will raise the decadal average to a magnitude closer to the 1920s. So the 1920s did better, or worse.
The monophonic sound of each mix gives the viewer a real sense of what it must have been like to have experienced these shorts for the first time in the 1920s and 1930s.
From the 1920s to early 1940s, he led a series of passive resistance campaigns in pursuit of Swaraj (self-rule), which redefined the character of Indian nationalism.
Bio" means life, and the term biosphere was first coined by a Russian scientist (Vladimir Vernadsky) in the 1920s. AP Environmental Science Chapter 5- The Biosphere
First, she overstates the case that the Purist aesthetic which emerged in the 1920s, enchanted with ‘the thing in itself’ and enamored of a certain visual literalism, dominates American photography.
Who would have realised that his ideas would have a lasting influence from their prodigious outflowing in the 1920s right down to the twenty-first century?
The chippies also added skirtings, trimmings and painted the walls, giving the 1920s accommodation a real boost.
It scared off other pianists until the late 1920s, when Horowitz began to enjoy great success with it.
Today it's a given that the best wines in Burgundy and elsewhere are estate-bottled, that is, produced by the people who grow the grapes, but through the 1920s most of the grapes grown in Burgundy were sold to négotiants who vinified and bottled the finished wine, frequently blending them with heartier wines from the sunny Rhône valley and elsewhere. The Childhood Chums Keeping Volnay a Delight
In the 1920s Pearson resumed his acting career but also began publishing short stories, essays, and journalism.
He plays the lead in a remake of the 1920s comedy classic.
But since the early 1920s, the oil companies have been blocking ethanol use - while using toxic substance like lead, benzene, toluene and xylene.
Regular teamsters used bullocks until the late 1920s.
With the coming of fibro in the 1920s, they could be built cheaply and quickly almost anywhere, and they were.
The legal position and disabilities of illegitimates remained largely unchanged until late in the 20th century, unaffected by the family law reforms of the 1920s and the general loosening of standards during the two world wars.
What Evans really dislikes is art itself, at least as far as it has dared to sully the innocence of fiction: "The histories of the novel and of storytelling ran together until the early 20th century; since the 1920s, that history has been one of formal drift, away from the novel as a social form that described how characters live in relation to others ... Narrative Strategies
The scallywags and street urchins of 1920s Kingston had come up with a new way of extracting a few pennies from unsuspecting members of the public.
She arrived in 1920s Paris with nothing but talent, ruthless ambition and her own inimitable style.
With its nautical bells, daguerreotypes of 1920s Fiumincino, and mountains of freshly-caught fish, it is part of the town's maritime heritage that has been thriving since the Roman days when the port was built by the Emperor Trajan. Plucking the Finest Fruits From the Sea
Through the 1920s and 1930s, images of Caroline and her sisters, first as bob-haired demigoddesses, later as soda-sipping bobby-soxers in saddle shoes, helped to define the succeeding eras of boom and bust.
Thus few priests by the 1920s were commending ‘periodic continence’ to their most troubled penitents, although it was licit for them to do so.
When the Makahs stopped whaling in the 1920s it was because commercial whalers, harpooning all they could find, had nearly driven the gray whales to extinction.
The history of wing walking dates back to 1920s America, when a surplus of aeroplanes after the First World War encouraged soldiers who had been flying in battle to buy them cheaply and go "barnstorming", the first major form of civil aviation in the history of flight. The art of aerobatic wing walking
Formerly the personal estate of a wealthy British businessman in the late 1920s, Hengshan Moller Villa still retains elements of its distinctive and opulent past.
The furniture and floor coverings date from the 1920s.
Born Ida Karamian in 1908 to Armenian parents in Russia, she served her apprenticeship and found both friends and a metier in modernist Paris in the late 1920s. Portraits of the artists
But in the second half of the 1920s professional football spread to such an extent that the "amateurs only" conception of the Olympics meant that many of the best players were unable to be fielded, more and more countries were on the path to not distinguishing between professionals and amateurs to end various degrees of "shamateurism" and various professional teams (England, but also many clubs) had taken to playing against the amateur teams presented at the Olympics, often winning by a clear margin. World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010
In the second half of the 1920s he experimented with electroplating metal to a plaster core.
Its doors opened last year in a house dating from the 1920s, with decor that is reminiscent of the times to which its name refers, in a way that is retro without being self-consciously or slavishly repro.
The Kailyard school, with its unintellectual sentimentalizing of rural life and its rejection of the political implications of writing in Scots, was precisely what MacDiarmid had overthrown back in the 1920s.
To that end, they invited 200 journalists from all over the world to watch polo last summer, the first time a chukka had been played on the island since the 1920s.
However, acetylcholine, the first neurotransmitter to be identified, was not isolated until the early 1920s.
It appears in a 1964 letter published as a preface to a text written in the 1920s.
In the later 1920s, and especially in the 30s, modernism seemed a spent force.
Fritsche's point is that Heidegger's idiom and use of language were part of a shared tradition of right-wing thought that emerged in the 1920s in Germany.
The "Barr" champagne glass with a stylized head on the stem comes with a matching stirrer 1924—swizzling out the fizz was a jazzy fad in the roaring 1920s. A Display of Lalique's Beauty
The caption over your illustration of the proposed extension to the library at the University of York would surely be more apt if it read 1920s revisited.
In the 1920s the calf-length tweed skirt with a crêpe de chine blouse epitomised the British look.
Police earnings in the 1920s were substantial by comparison with most other occupations to which a working man could aspire.
And this 1920s photograph of colliers at the Gambleside pit which was located on the far side of Clowbridge Reservoir near Dunnockshaw, shows mere boys among the workforce.
In the mid 1920s his work became more figurative in a manner recalling Léger and the Purists (he met Léger, Le Corbusier and Ozenfant when he revisited Paris in 1924), and his work met with considerable acclaim in France.
The 1920s, self-evidently, were the era of the bottle party and the Bright Young Things, the Charleston and the shimmy, cigarette holders and mock Tudor.
Publicly suppressed since the 1920s, these qualities have only survived through the black economy, or through private family oral traditions.
The garden was created by banker Lionel de Rothschild in the 1920s and is famous for its stunning displays of camellias, azaleas and rhododendrons.
Southern-based Irish regiments of fusiliers, such as the Dublins and Munsters, and the Connaught Rangers, were disbanded in the early 1920s when the Irish Free State was founded.
Here are rolls of cinema moquette, squares of carpet, specially designed for particular cinema chains in patterns to die for, ashtrays, decorated seat ends, stunning light fittings, scent sprays from the 1920s.
During the 1920s, advertising copy and style names for all types of rings for men cast these items in a particularly manly light.
Indeed, from the 1920s, several studies showed an association between spacing and survival of the offspring.
I read that for a time in the 1920s more airfreight was lifted annually out of Papua New Guinea than in all the rest of the world put together.
By the mid-1920s the nationalist movement dominated much of southern China, and Chiang was able to lead an enormous military expedition which aimed to defeat the northern warlords and reunify China.
As a boy in the 1920s he conceived an undying love for the ancient Roman poet Horace, and since then has learned nothing more about him or Rome.
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Eleanor cared for a succession of hoboes, vagabonds, and bums who called at the back door of the large house the family owned on Hamond Street in Chicago.
The lyricism of the writing is, indeed, a source of ‘beauty and magic’ in the book, but balancing this tendency toward fabulation are the detailed depictions of daily life in the 1920s Delta.
By the end of the 1920s, deliveries and abortions, adenoidectomies, appendectomies, tonsillectomies, and the treatment of accident victims accounted for 60 percent of hospital admissions.
In the mid-1920s Lindbergh barnstormed through Alabama.
The official beginning of cheerleading was in the 1920s when ivy-league schools had cheerleaders with coloured pompoms leading the crowd in choruses of, ‘rah, rah, sis, boom, bah!’
Borrowing from J-Horror films like Ring (1998) and Pulse (2001) as well as ergodic works such as Danieleweski's House of Leaves (2000) it uses emails, blog posts, chat logs, press releases and transcribed interviews to tell the story of a baroquely shot 1920s snuff film that manages to escape its original medium. REVIEW: The Best Horror Of The Year, Volume 2 edited by Ellen Datlow
The dobro, the resonating guitar with the "hubcap" top, introduced in the late 1920s for playing oozing Hawaiian music, had had a very set, limited role in country, as heard in the fills and comedy novelty sounds brought to Roy Acuff's band by Bashful Brother Oswald (Pete Kirby) and the even-more-intricate playing of Uncle Josh Graves with Flatt & Scruggs. Jerry Douglas, Irreplaceable Instrumentalist
Indeed, the very material used by British teddy-bear manufacturers in the 1920s and 1930s was kapok, a cotton-like material that was lighter, softer and more hygienic than wood shavings, cork or horsehair.
A precursor to the nightclubs of the 1920s, the tearoom was the place not only to be seen but to learn the latest ragtime dances or the supremely naughty Argentine tango. Thé Dansant | Edwardian Promenade
In the early 1920s, I and my elder sister Lettice went to a ball most nights and were not allowed latchkeys.
Their print Ikat, a soft percale saturated with primary colors, harkens back to the 1920s Constructivist period; the explosive, naïve floral Jar Ptitsa is from the era of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris. Designing Russia
Lim Huck Chin/Fernando Jorge Examples of the craft of tinsmith Yong Sit Chuan, who was born in the tinsmith workshop that his father founded in the early 1920s. Scenes From Malacca
Though in fact the red and orange colour scheme of the theatre's interior dates from the 1920s -- it was originally pink, grey and white, as in the not very Mogul pastoral tondo over the proscenium. Iain Sinclair: Banned by Labour, invited by Lib Dems
In the 1920s, sexology did not constitute a stabilized system.
In the 1920s and well into the '30s, the Sunday dress for the men was a navy suit, sometimes a waistcoat or the occasional pullover.
The castellated house, which has been derelict since the 1920s, is widely known for its hauntings.
Thus few priests by the 1920s were commending ‘periodic continence’ to their most troubled penitents, although it was licit for them to do so.

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