Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that era, as Editor Hodapp calls it, may seem neither very sweet nor so terribly mad, still it is possible that many middle-aged readers will find in this book's backward glance a nostalgic moment-less, perhaps, for the actual quality of life in the '20s than for the kind of easy illusions it was then possible to cultivate...
Handsome Living. In the golden '20s, the years of the big names-the years of Dempsey, Tilden and Bobby Jones-Babe Ruth was the biggest draw of them all. With his big bat, he put baseball back on its feet and back in the hearts of the fans after the 1919 "Black Sox" scandal...
...Door. In his 42 years, Antal Dorati has faced many a crisis and weathered them all. After he graduated from the Budapest Conservatory, where he worked under both Bartók and Kodály (TIME, July 19), he began to conduct in provincial German towns in his early 20s. Once, when he assured the doorman at Miinster's opera house that he was its new director, the doorman laughed in the boy's face, refused to let him in until a city official arrived to identify him. His next big job-and the one that eventually brought...
Ghosts of the '20s. Huston and Co-Writer Richard Brooks have updated (and all but completely rewritten) Maxwell Anderson's nine-year-old play about a disillusioned veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and how he recovered his courage. McCloud (Humphrey Bogart), a veteran of World War II, comes to one of the Florida keys to see the widow (Lauren Bacall) and hotelkeeper father (Lionel Barrymore) of his best friend, who died in battle. He finds them the virtual prisoners of a gangster named Rocco (Edward G. Robinson), his gunmen (Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, Dan Seymour...
...world we had before, even down to the gang lords . . . There is great talk of the good old days and prohibition; in other words, return to the old order . . . I tried to make all the characters old-fashioned (the gangster's moll is out of the '20s), to brand them as familiar figures, and to suggest they were ready to take over again...