Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father land's dastardly enemies. But if Ivan was only questionably terrible, what of Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy? Here, surely, was solid ground. A nation that could trust neither czarist nor Soviet historians must be able to trust the rewritemen on its own Chicago newspapers in the '20s...
...issued a writ of habeas corpus (with a 774-page opinion) freeing Roger from prison, where he had served only 21 years of a 99-year sentence. Judge Barnes said that Roger had been railroaded on a charge of kidnaping Jake ("The Barber") Factor, another character in the '20s' melodrama of crime, which either was or was not more real than a Slavic folk tale...
...year ago, almost everyone thereabouts-including Fronia herself-expected the daily to be the crowning glory of a successful business career. In the Ohio River towns of Ironton and Ashland. Ky., where even competitors called her a "business genius," Mrs. Sexton had started her climb in the '20s with a small restaurant, nursed her assets until she was able to buy a movie chain, assorted real estate, and controlling interest in the Citizens National Bank, of which she became president...
...when Jacques Fath followed with his own version of "the boyish look" and the "downward-sliding silhouette." His models walked with their weight thrown back on their heels to suppress bosoms and accentuate their southering belts. There was no blinking it: it was the "debutante slouch" of the '20s. Could beaded dresses, long cigarette holders and the shrill laugh be far behind...
...membership reported was 4,526, including more than 100 professors. More recently, the chief of Japan's security investigation reported to the Diet that there are 100,000 party members in the country, and that of these, seven out of ten are "young men and women in their 20s." Meanwhile, the teachers seem to be doing their bit: the Japan Teachers Union sponsored the violently anti-American movie Hiroshima, and the union of the Yamaguchi Prefecture recently published a student-and-teacher almanac with a "thought for each day" on "American imperialism...