Word: 1910s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every few weeks, outside the movie theater in virtually any American town in the late 1910s, stood the life-size cardboard figure of a small tramp--outfitted in tattered, baggy pants, a cutaway coat and vest, impossibly large, worn-out shoes and a battered derby hat--bearing the inscription I AM HERE TODAY. An advertisement for a Charlie Chaplin film was a promise of happiness, of that precious, almost shocking moment when art delivers what life cannot, when experience and delight become synonymous, and our investments yield the fabulous, unmerited bonanza we never get past expecting...
...century" in yet another nationwide commemoration and, as the winter International Review has pointed out, possible farewell, to America's golden age. The 30 new stamps are arranged on two sheets, each depicting one of the first two decades of the 20th century. Among the 15 stamps covering the 1910s, one in particular stands out to me: the first crossword puzzle of 1913. As the Postal Service reports, that puzzle was created by a journalist named Arthur Wynne, and it appeared in the New York World on Dec. 21 of that year. Now, some 85 years on, the crossword...
What exactly is anime? The first animated films in Japan date from the 1910s and were strongly influenced by French animators such as Emile Cohl. But in 1963, anime was catapulted into popular Japanese consciousness when comic strip artist Tezuka Osamu released for television an animated version of his comic character, Astroboy...
...also just finished reading Nancy F. Cott's book from the 1980s, The Grounding of Modern Feminism. In it, she describes the origins of feminism in the 1910s and 1920s. Apparently, women social scientists in the 1920s were asking questions about juggling marriage and a career: "Were wives and mothers able to perform on the job? What careers did they follow? Was the married career woman endangering her husband's and children's welfare? Who did the housework...
...cafeteria-style eating became popular in the 1910s and 1920s, Memorial Hall's high prices fell out of favor with most students. All first-years began taking their meals at the Harvard Union...