Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Floating Luggage. The Pasado was a yacht all right, but she had been built in the mid-'20s to accommodate six people. The 96-foot vessel had done a hitch in the Coast Guard during the war, and she was greasy, grimy and sooty. Later the passengers agreed that they should have backed out right then & there. But Charlie said things would be cleaned up on the way to Honolulu...
Over the years a legend has grown up that Muñoz was a spectacular bohemian in the turbulent Greenwich Village of the '20s. The fact is that he only lived in the Village a few months. Through much of his New York life he and his young wife -Muna Lee, another young poet-were bourgeois suburbanites...
Charles Norman pretty certainly knew the kind of people he has written about in this, his first, novel. At 44, and New York born-&-raised, he has produced six small volumes of poetry himself. The Well of the Past is a gently idealized version of the Manhattan '20s; yet Author Norman writes so carefully of the quiet life of David Gerald, and follows his simple and unpretentious thoughts with such detached sympathy, that the portrait ends by being impressive. This, he seems to say to the reader, was all that the Greenwich Village-Paris rebellion, in most cases, amounted...
...witty, debonair, fashion-plate Irishman who could charm a bird down out of a tree. "Mr. New York," they called him, and the Big Town "wore [him] in its lapel" like a carnation (as one wit cracked), and threw him away when the Big Party of the '20s was over...
Though the U.S. had no international air policy in the early '20s-and did not even know that it needed one-Trippe did. In 1927, while Sonny Whitney lined up $300,000 capital, Trippe merged three aviation firms into what eventually became Pan American Airways, and started flying the 110-mile Key West-to-Cuba route...