Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago's Police Superintendent Orlando W. Wilson put it. In fact, it was more of a falling down of bodies. Six members of Chicago's underworld were killed in just ten days, a rate of extinction that compared favorably with that of the '20s, when Al Capone was lord high executioner and the Thompson submachine gun was known affectionately as the Chicago piano...
...likely be linked to his small but choice collection of paintings, bought largely with the guidance of Dealers Wildenstein and Duveen. Erickson began collecting in 1922, when he bought a portrait of a strange little boy by George Romney. English painters-Romney, Gainsborough, Raeburn-were fashionable in the '20s, but Erickson and his wife Anna were also willing to wander into richer pastures...
...until Gonzalez was 50 that he recognized the iron in his Spanish blood and turned all his attention to sculpture. When he returned to art in the late '20s, his early attempt at painting was left behind, and in its place was a craft he had learned at the Renault plant during World War I: acetylene torch welding. His reconciliation with Picasso followed, and they worked together on some sculptures. Picasso's limitless horizon of idea and sense of imagery liberated Gonzalez from his lingering post-impressionist style; Gonzalez took to the air and escaped from the solid...
...used to be that most high schools and colleges fielded brass bands to pep up the Saturday-afternoon football game. In the '20s, somebody dreamed up the idea of leading off the band with a female drum major, and the drum majorette was born. Soon there were teams of majorettes with high hats, tight pants, and chin-cracking dimpled knees. Today the drill teams are almost more active-in regional and national competitions, before TV cameras, on the road-than the school footballers they complement. Their marching and twirling routines are in finitely more intricate than football plays, their...
...Tabasco state of southern Mexico during the era of religious persecution in the late '20s and early '30s, The Power and the Glory follows the last functioning priest to his inevitable destruction before a firing squad. His sense of obligation to God has kept him in the country while others have fled, but he is also corrupt, a drunk, and the father of an illegitimate child. The state that hunts him down is ruthless and godless, but its socialistic ideals are presented with both sympathy and conviction...