Word: 1920s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1920s the price of his work was already high, and this was actually the period when most of the Van Gogh pictures which have been questioned now emerged and came onto the market," Bailey said...
...unbounded optimism. Following a postwar depression in 1920-21, the economy bounced back with a vengeance, growing a torrid 30% in the next two years. And money succeeded in holding its purchasing power as inflation averaged a less than 1% in the decade. The boom filled federal coffers. The 1920s was the last decade in this century when the federal budget ran a surplus every year. The national debt shrank from $24 billion to $16 billion. Taxes were reduced...
DIED. ALEXANDRA DANILOVA, 93, ballet's radiant empress who left Russia in 1924 but never defected from its classical dance traditions; at her home in New York City. Orphaned at three, Danilova fell in love with the stage. At the Ballet Russes in the 1920s and '30s, she soared as Odette in Swan Lake and sizzled as the street dancer in Le Beau Danube. As a teacher at the School of American Ballet, she inspired generations of dancers. "I sacrificed marriage, children and country to be a ballerina," she wrote, "and there was never any misunderstanding on my part...
...epicenter of the political quake were Bermeo and his cohort in the so-called NAFTA generation, the largest and most independent-minded youth wave Mexico has seen since the 1920s. They got that moniker by having come of age during the new era ushered in by the three-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, which freed up not just commerce but also the flow of ideas across the border with the U.S. Empowered by its huge size, the NAFTA generation promises to have an impact on Mexican politics, economics and culture as profound as the clout wielded...
According to Murphy, this multimillion dollar project will be the largest scale renovation since the Cooperative moved into its current location on Mass. Ave. in the 1920s...