Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Unconventional young woman, often from a middle-class background, typically in her late teens or early twenties, defied her parents' wishes by embracing a bold, unconventional lifestyle with short bobbed hair, revealing outfits, lipstick, and a free-spirited attitude; Flappers are associated with the Jazz Age of the 1920s [171]
In the roaring '20s (that's 1920s, kids!) during prohibition, giggle water was slang for any alcoholic beverage. You pay for the booze and the giggle is free. Example: "Barkeep!
The Roaring Twenties was a decade of economic growth and widespread prosperity, driven by recovery from wartime devastation and deferred spending, a boom in construction, and the rapid growth of consumer goods such as automobiles and electricity in North America and Europe and a few other developed countries such as Australia. [18]
The Roaring Twenties is a 1939 American gangster film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, and Gladys George. The film, spanning the period from 1919 to 1933, was written by Jerry Wald , Richard Macaulay and Robert Rossen .
Some trendsters predicted a resurgence of Roaring '20s styles such as silk stockings and bob haircuts for the 2020s. It could still happen. But singular fashion trends, and specifically American ...
Draho outlined UBS's criteria to officially declare the 2020s a "Roaring ’20s": sustained GDP growth of 2.5% or higher, inflation in the 2-3% range, a Fed funds rate around 3.5%, and the 10-year ...
The earliest-known report of the slang expression "23" (or "twenty-three") as a code word for asking someone to leave is a newspaper reference on March 17, 1899:
But the futurists of the Roaring ’20s did come fairly close on a few prognostications. Here’s a look at what they got kind of right and what they got very, very wrong. The semi-right.