Unlike most other decades in American history, the 1920s has many colorful nicknames. People call the years between 1920 and 1930 the Roaring Twenties, the Flapper Era, the Jazz Age, the Lawless Decade, and even the Era of Wonderful Nonsense. Its many...
The 1920s were known as the Lawless Decade, the Flapper Era, and the Jazz Age. They were a period of extremes— a time of Prohibition, Al Capone, flagpole sitters, and marathon dance contests. Everyone talked about a "return to normalcy" after the...
The technological advances of the beginning of the century continued to impact lives in the 1920s. Henry Ford (1863–1947) had improved his assembly-line techniques to produce a Model T every ten seconds by 1925. Automobiles were more affordable...
Roaring Twenties is a phrase used to describe the 1920s, principally in North America, that emphasizes the period's social, artistic, and cultural dynamism. Normality returned to politics in the wake of World War I, jazz music blossomed, the flapper...
With Twenty20 set to dominate the cricketing landscape, new PCA chief Sean Morris tells Stephen Brenkley why the English game must guarantee its share of the sport's new riches Players' union faces up to revolution Twenty20 cricket is spreading like wildfire. It's...
JIM BECKERMAN, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 01-12-2001 THE TWENTIES ROAR AGAIN -- ANOTHER 'GATSBY' FILM AIMS TO SUCCEED WHERE THE OTHERS FAILED By JIM BECKERMAN, Staff Writer Date: 01-12-2001, Friday Section: YOUR TIME Edition: All Editions -- Two Star B, Two...
Pawel Pawlikowski’s My Summer of Love, from a screenplay by Mr. Pawlikowski and Michael Wynne, based on the novel by Helen Cross, turns out to be a triumph of unexpectedness in its slimmed-down story of two teenage girls, one middle-to-lower-class, and the other upper-class. The...
Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love, from a screenplay by Mr. Pawlikowski and Michael Wynne, based on the novel by Helen Cross, turns out to be a triumph of unexpectedness in its slimmed-down story of two teenage girls, one middle-to-lower-class, and the other upper-class. The...
The 1920s enabled the United States to assume a greater economic role on the world stage. Unlike the major European powers at the time, the U.S. did not have to rebuild its economic infrastructure following World War I, enabling it to flourish and exhibit influence over many aspects of life during this decade. This included an increase in item production, the emergence of the automobile and the radio, and changes in American social and cultural life.
