Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NIGHT CLUB ERA-Stanley Walker-Stokes...
...EDWARDIAN ERA-André Maurois-Appleton-Century...
...Binyon emphasized the importance of animals in the earliest portraits made by man. Before the era of Buddhism, the speaker stated, Chinese art was distinguished by a delicacy and sureness of touch and a love of sinuous movement, with curiosity and mystery flourishing side by side with refinement and wisdom...
Andrew William Mellon was the Cabinet hero of the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover era William Hartman Woodin, cheery but inactive, has not yet qualified for a similar role in the Roosevelt era. Nor have the new heads of the State, Justice, War, Navy Agriculture, Commerce or Interior departments yet achieved historic stature. The first woman Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins (Wilson) has been receiving quiet plaudits ever since her first hour in office as the most human, humane and intelligent incumbent since her post was founded in 1913. But the first phrase of praise with resonance for the ages was bestowed...
...ulcerated colitis; in Vancouver, B. C. Born on a potato ranch near Waco, Tex., she left a girls' school to become a rodeo performer, appeared in early western films as ''The Female Bill Hart." In Manhattan, she caught step with the tempo of the Prohibition-Prosperity era, found she could pack her gaudy hotspots by treating her customers with brassy insolence. She had a battalion of attorneys to keep her out of jail for prohibition offenses. Her star waned with the dawn of a chastened decade; she took a troupe to France, was refused admittance...