Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...house) on wheels. In a great wooden tabernacle Evangelist Billy Sunday shouted against sin. The oldsters knew what he was talking about. They knew how the cowboys of the '70s spent their holidays in Dodge City. They had seen desperados run amuck, had joined in quick, relentless justice. Remembering, they climbed Dodge City's famed Boot Hill, burial place of many men and one woman* who died "with their boots on" (by violence). Although 32 of the bodies were removed to the town's cemetery in 1878, it is popularly supposed that several collections of bones still...
...fond mother's indulgence, he might have been a musician or actor. For his mother was the late great tragedienne Helena Modjeska, and he was her only son. He played in the green rooms of Europe while she enacted the rolling romantic tragedies of the 1860s and '70s. In 1876 personal tragedies forced her to go to raw California as a ranch developer. Almost forgotten became her husband, Gustav Modrzejewski,* in Poland. Her boy, then 15, went with her. The California ranch was a failure. Then there was opportunity to make her U.S. debut in Shakespeare...
...popular preference for acrobatics instead of music that started Mr. Ringling, youngest of seven Ringling Bros.* on his career as circus-man. Back in the late '70s, the brothers organized a concert troupe, discovered that the addition first of a contortionist, later of a trapeze act, materially increased box office business. Then came a menagerie in the shape of one hyena, to the laughter of which was later added the roar of a lion and the leaps of a kangaroo. It was not until he had been for several seasons a circus man that Mr. Ringling even saw an elephant...
Flounced, wasp-waisted, tight-corseted women in the early '70s were much pleased to learn that one James McCall, a Scotsman, was making dress patterns. Civil War still a vivid memory, economy was a popular word and patterns were economical. Scotsman McCall knew how to make them, for he had once been a tailor. Soon the wife of his secretary, writing under the name of May Manton, started The Queen, eight-page fashion sheet. Along with McCall patterns, The Queen prospered in a small way. After Scotsman McCall's death in 1885 May Manton's husband, George...
Awful legends naturally enshrouded "The Greek." His ancestors are said to have been Byzantine pirates, but Athanase Vagliano would admit to no more than that he was born in Athens "probably in the '70s...