Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never quite making it. The greatest natural flyer his World War I squadron leader ever saw, Waldo nevertheless came too late for the greatest days of aerial combat, particularly the chance to duel the German ace of aces, Ernst Kessler. Barnstorming in an aerial circus during the mid-'20s, he senses that the tide has once more turned against him. The aviation establishment is now interested in proving to the public that flying is a safe and reliable means of transportation, rather than in determining who will be the first nut to do an outside loop. Again, Smiling Waldo...
...life strikes many as excessive. "Nobody in this town lives like that anymore," sniffs an anonymous critic who was not too proud to accept the invitation. "Four hundred guests assembled, and Cher making a sweeping entrance down a spiral staircase-it's out of the great glamorous '20s." New Friend Allman, a down-home type with fairly primitive views on relations between the sexes, may make a more telling comment on the state of Cher's liberation when he says, "She's weak just where you want a woman to be weak; she really reaches...
...Marshall, 83, prolific Hollywood director; in Los Angeles. Hired as an extra at Universal Studios in 1912, Marshall became successively a bit player, prop boy, makeup man, film editor, cameraman, and director of hundreds of serials, farces and westerns. Among his credits: Tom Mix flicks of the '20s, You Can 't Cheat an Honest Man (1939), and How the West...
...daring, and stern moral fibre that Americans hoped typified the country. The kidnapping and subsequent murder of his infant son, five years after he flew "The Spirit of St. Louis" to Paris, certainly dispelled his "Lucky Lindy" image-the title of an enormously successful popular song in the late 20s. But it added yet another dimension to American's sense of him as a lone, proud hero...
...rights to one of his novels, the beginning of a long and profitable relationship. At the same time, Wodehouse began writing plays with Guy Bolton, who became his lifelong friend. Both men collaborated with Jerome Kern on a series of fabulously successful musicals in the teens and '20s, including Oh Lady, Lady and Sitting Pretty. Perhaps the Wodehouse words that most Americans know best-although few can identify him as the author-are the lyrics to the song Bill from Show Boat...