What Was it Like in the 1920s? |
| Music |
"Always", Irving Berlin
"Carolina In The Morning", Gus Kahn & Walter Donaldson
"5 Foot 2, Eyes of Blue", Ray Henderson
"Don't Bring Lulu", Rose, Brown & Henderson
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| Literature |
Ulysses, James Joyce
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Mark Twain
Ulysses, James Joyce
Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence
A Passage to India, E. M. Forster
Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle, Hugh Lofting
An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
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| Entertainment |
Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments
First successful talkie, The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson
Marx Brothers take to the vaudeville stage in The Cocoanuts
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| Average Salary: $1,324.00 |
| Cost of Living |
| Loaf of Bread: |
.09¢ |
| Gallon of Milk: |
.56¢ |
| Dozen Eggs: |
.44¢ |
| Average House: |
$7,809.00 |
| Average Car: |
$265.00 |
| Gallon of Gas: |
.22¢ |
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| World Events |
Civil War continues in Russia. Ottoman Empire is dissolved. Britain institutes unemployment insurance. League of Nations meets in Geneva. Southern Ireland granted dominion status and  Sinn Fein founds the IRA. Fascist Benito Mussolini named dictator of Italy. Egypt has new ruler on throne, Faud I, and old ruler, King Tut, dug-up. The USSR is formed. Hitler and Nazi Party seize Munich; he goes to jail and pens Mein Kampf. Japan suffers terrible earthquakes and fires. Lenin dies and Russia is headed by Stalin-led trio, later by Stalin only. France holds the first Winter Olympics and debuts Art Deco. Chiang Kai Shek rises to power in China as does Emperor Hirohito in Japan. The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes becomes Yugoslavia. A German-U.S. friendship treaty is signed. Greece's King George II is overthrown by army/republic.
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| U.S. History |
"The Roaring Twenties". Nineteenth Amendment grants the vote to women. Warren Harding becomes 29th president. League of Women Voters and the ACLU are founded. Prohibition goes  into effect. Lincoln Memorial opens on the Potomac. Pres. Harding dies in office, Coolidge finishes term and is then re-elected. Macy's launches Thanksgiving Day parade. Clarence Darrow defends John Scopes in the Scopes "Monkey" Trial. Gangster Al Capone rules in Chicago. Literary Renaissance with novels by Sinclair Lewis, Langston Hughes, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Gertude Stein, and many more. The Delta Queen steamboat begins running. In the Spirit of St. Louis Charles Lindbergh flies over the Atlantic; first telephone calls are made under. Herbert Hoover is elected. Wall Street crashes on Black Friday - 10/29/29 - ushering in the Great Depression. The World's Fair opens in Chicago. Babe Ruth becomes all-time home run champ with number 120. J. Edgar Hoover assumes leadership of the FBI. Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens.
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| At Salem Normal School |
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The Debating Club is formed. In 1921, the men's athletics teams resume competitive play. This is the first year since the start of World War I that there has been a sufficient number of men in the school to put an athletic team on the field. During 1924, the Women's Athletic Association is formed. The first issue of "The Log," the student newspaper, is issued. The Special Education department is established.
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| Toys and Games |
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The pogo stick and Tootsie Toys are the newest toys.
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