Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Obviously, Memorial Hall has undergone many changes since the '20s. The centralization of Dining Services began under Lowell...
Cartoon directors are kids at heart, and the Warner aces (Jones, Avery, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett) were brilliant kids, all in their 20s or early 30s, when they created Porky, Daffy and Bugs. Freleng was the anchor, making crisp vaudeville comedies. Clampett bent his stories and pummeled his characters into manic, surreal, endless inventive farce; his great period (1942-46) deserves a book of its own. Jones' films were about people--all right, barnyard critters, but human withal--who endured life's vithithitudes (as Daffy would say) with amazing grace and Charlie Chaplin's physical...
Sometimes there are one and five-dollar bills still salvageable by carefully pressing out the creases. But the bank only gives 10s and 20s, so that may be all there is in her little change purses. And who wants to spend the entire last $20 on photocopying, anyway? It seems extravagant to commit that much money to photocopying even if it will eventually be used up in the remaining years here...
...descendant who served as Teddy Roosevelt's Attorney General), and once initial suspicions were allayed that it would turn into some big, secretive, czarist police force, it did precisely that. The bureau quickly built its empire of white men in white shirts, chasing anarchists and Bolsheviks in the '20s, gangsters and bootleggers in the '30s, fascists in the '40s, communists in the '50s and civil-rights leaders and antiwar protesters in the '60s. The enemies, always changing, are changing still, and the agency that confronts them now faces problems that would bedevil any FBI director trying to drag the agency...
Cohen said she planned to offer American history courses including seminars and focused surveys on the '20s, '30s and the New Deal...