Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trials, study penal and rehabilitation systems, and look into gambling, racketeering and law enforcement. Explained Publisher Hoyt: "We want to get at the underlying reasons for crime, its implications, the responsibilities of society." Editor Lowall, who likes his crime served up in the smoking hot manner of the '20s, put it more bluntly: "I'm going to be house dick for the Denver Post." His first assignment: the bootlegging business in dry Oklahoma...
...20s, Tobacco Tycoon James Buchanan Duke (Bull Durham, Duke's Mixture, Lucky Strikes) stood upon a hill three miles west of Durham, N.C. and silently gazed out over the wooded acres about him. Finally he turned to his companion and said: "This is the place...
Burdick had looked vainly for the early '20s Oxford of Novelist Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited') where the "subtly homosexual youth . . . carries his teddy bear about St. John's Quad . . . boys roar out into the country in Bentley roadsters, and over Cointreau and plovers' eggs have some dazzling conversations "about God and Truth." But, said Burdick, "Times have changed since Waugh was here. The Oxford homosexual today has neither wittiness nor creative eccentricity to recommend him . . Parties revolve around gin and orange which is, beyond question, one of the most barbaric drinks that any people ever accepted...
...served on many American missions to Europe and was President Roosevelt's interpreter during White House Conferences with Foreign Minister Molotov in 1942. After World War I he was detailed to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace and also served as American Trade Commissioner to Belgium in the early '20s...
...horror, although the same stories had been aired on the Senate floor five years earlier. Olds, a plain-featured man with jutting ears and a smooth manner of speech, testified that he had written as he did "because I believed radical writing was needed in the 'golden '20s' to shock the American people. . . out of the social and political lethargy . . ." He emphatically denied that he had ever been a Communist; Communism was a "negation of democracy...