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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Says Lippmann: "What most distinguishes the generation who have approached maturity since the debacle of idealism at the end of the War is not their rebellion against the religion and moral code of their parents, but their disillusionment with their own rebellion. It is common for young men and women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Good Life | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

The Kenwyns had three children, two "normal" pleasant members of society, Alan and Joan; one ethereal sprite, Lynneth, lover of winds, rains, fierce lightning, awful thunder. Alan despised her for the hysteria she indulged whenever her family kept her indoors from a thunder storm. Joan hated her, too, partly from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Good Life | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Soon the boy graduated to the ranks of the hat salesmen, and several years later was still selling Knox hats, his salary now having risen to $12 weekly. Ambitious, he asked for $15. But Hatter Knox refused the raise. Angry, Robert left, started his own hat business. Thus began the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hats & Hatters | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

In all that has been written about Publisher Macfadden, he has seldom been credited for his undeniable talent for discovering and reaching new publishing markets. There were physical culturists before him, but not many physical culturists who succeeded in getting the man on the street to read about physical culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ten-cent Paper | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

First Suit. Five tributaries of the Delaware River, which flows through New Jersey, rise in New York. New York, declares New Jersey, is now planning to construct dams and reservoirs to turn much of the water from those five tributaries to its own use. New Jersey would prevent New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: N. J. v. N. Y. | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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