Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...child hoofer. Hungry, she split with her husband, signed on as a marathon dancer near Boston. Just as the stage had been June's nursery, the marathon became her college, and she gives an effective description of one of the weirdest fads of the '20s and '30s. Dredged from the bottom of the Depression, the dancers were "horses" rather than humans, swung on their feet for days, weeks and months-with an eleven-minute break every hour. The idea, recalls June, was to turn the dancers into animals, make them near-insensate or "squirrely...
...chain was forged in the turn-of-the-century war of the copper kings, when the company used its newspapers as ironfisted, copperplated propaganda sheets in its successful fight for supremacy. In the '20s, when the company began to fret that its papers were furthering its image as a monopolist, it toned them down, tried to shape the news more by selecting than slanting or denouncing. Events harmful to Anaconda were either ignored or downplayed ; the papers even began to avoid all local controversies...
...Little Rock school board fire certain veteran teachers. Segregationists expanded the purge to 44 teachers, including the principal, two vice principals and 21 teachers at Central High School. No charges were specified; no hearings were held. The teachers, some of whom have been in Little Rock since the '20s, were simply "imprudent" about integration...
Thurs., May 21 The Lawless Years (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.)* For those who like their shoot-'em-ups on foot instead of horseback. Some noisy nostalgia for the hard, big-city hoods of the '20s and an even harder real-life cop: Barney Ruditsky, a detective who has long since deserted New York's finest for the green-backed life of a private peeper...
...Nagasaki* area. In 1873 the shogunate removed the notices posted in every Japanese marketplace and on street corners threatening death to anyone who turned Christian or harbored Christians. But until the end of World War II, Christianity was systematically associated with evildoing; "men now still in their 20s can remember how only a few years ago a Christian . . . was a favorite villain in stories for children...