Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musical numbers recall German café music of the hungry '20s. The artfully threadbare orchestration gives them a kind of tawdry elegance, as of faded Viennese waltzes with indecisive endings. Among the best: Pirate Jenny, appealingly rasped by Composer Weill's widow, Lotte Lenya,* dreaming of an escape from drudgery by joining a pirate crew; the Ballad of Dependency, in which Comedienne Charlotte Rae derides Macheath's virility...
...most responsible for the new trend is salty, 7 2-year-old Dr. Malcolm T. MacEachern of Chicago, longtime head of the hospital-standardization program of the American College of Surgeons. "When I came on the job in the '20s," says Dr. MacEachern, "tissue specimens were thrown into a pail. Nobody bothered to save them...
...work elephant reared from birth in captivity; 2) he was trained with kindness. Previous trainers captured grown elephants and tamed them to their tasks by breaking their spirits. Once past his prankish teens, Bandoola began racking up work records that made him famed in the Burma of the '20s, '30s and '40s. In one season, he extracted 300 tons of teak and pushed and dragged it an average distance of two miles from stump to floating stream...
Richardson and Murchison were both born in Athens, Texas, where they first became partners in horse-and-cattle trading. In the '20s, they speculated together in oil leases. Eventually, both struck it rich. Now each owns or controls an empire estimated at upwards of $300 million ; Richardson's wealth is even believed by some to be greater than that of Texan H. L. Hunt, estimated at $500 million or more. He owns a Texas City refinery, a string of cattle ranches, a radio and television chain, a drugstore chain, and, with Texas Publisher Amon G. Carter, the Texas...
...resemblance to past periods of bubbling prosperity such as the '80s and '90s, when Oilman Henry Flagler opened up the new vacationland by building a string of hotels down the East Coast and a railroad that eventually reached Key West. It is also different from the '20s, when fun-seeking tycoons went south in private railroad cars with a staff of servants for the servants, and fell over each other to buy medieval houses and fake antique furniture from Addison Mizner. Gone are the hordes of "developers" who boomed land prices as high...