nineteen-twenties

In the early nineteen-twenties, when I first settled in London, I did a great deal of reviewing.

He says John Fitz Gerald, a writer for a New York newspaper, used the name the Big Apple to mean New York in the nineteen twenties.

BOB DOUGHTY: American policy toward the League of Nations did not change much in the nineteen twenties.

These comedies, with plenty of songs, were a popular form of entertainment in the nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties.

The dance form known as stepping was invented by fraternities at black colleges around the nineteen-twenties.

Baltimore newspaper first called it that during the nineteen twenties when the manufacture and sale of alcohol were banned for a time.

STEVE EMBER: By the nineteen twenties, lunch wagons were bigger and stayed open all day, instead of only at night.

The nineteen twenties were a time of growth and business strength.

The early nineteen twenties marked the beginning of Zora Neale Hurston's life as a writer.

In the nineteen twenties, there was a debate in the United States about jazz music.

The institute already existed as a research center when plant scientist Nikolai Vavilov reorganized it in the nineteen twenties.

In the early nineteen twenties they began selling franchise licenses to local restaurant owners to use the A&W name and sell its products.

KAY GALLANT: Americans in the nineteen twenties lived much better than their fathers and mothers.

HARRY MONROE: The nineteen twenties also produced the greatest writer of theater plays in American history, Eugene O'Neill.

Quantum mechanics, which evolved in the early nineteen-twenties, had its initial thrust in the area of atomic physics.

HARRY MONROE: The spirit of protest was especially strong in serious American writing during the nineteen twenties.

And what of those behaviourists and sociologists of the nineteen twenties?

KAY GALLANT: The nineteen twenties brought a feeling of freedom and independence to millions of Americans, especially young Americans.

In the nineteen-twenties it was the asylum and the shock treatments.

He worked as a reporter in Frankfurt, Germany, in the late nineteen twenties. He also studied international law.

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: The American economy grew in the nineteen twenties for several reasons.

That movement had helped women gain the right to vote in the nineteen twenties.

The nineteen twenties are remembered as a quiet period in American foreign policy.

Why did the Ivy League schools of the nineteen-twenties limit the admission of Jewish immigrants?

In the middle nineteen twenties, Mae West started to write, produce and act in her own plays.

In the nineteen twenties Marian Anderson won two singing competitions.

But in most ways, the nineteen twenties were a conservative time in American life.

This week in our series, we discuss American foreign policy during the nineteen twenties.

Americans in the nineteen twenties began to buy all kinds of new products they had never used before.

HARRY MONROE: The nineteen twenties also were an exciting time for black music.

We think it was first used in the nineteen twenties.

It said Mister Zworykin had invented his device in the nineteen twenties.

He went to prison in the nineteen twenties after he cheated thousands of investors.

Her book is a memoir about growing up as the daughter of missionaries in China in the nineteen twenties and thirties.

This week in our series, Kay Gallant and MAURICE JOYCE: tell about the many changes in America during the early nineteen twenties.