16 Facts About Roaring Twenties

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Social and cultural features known as the Roaring Twenties began in leading metropolitan centres and spread widely in the aftermath of World War I The spirit of the Roaring Twenties was marked by a general feeling of novelty associated with modernity and a break with tradition, through modern technology such as automobiles, moving pictures, and radio, bringing "modernity" to a large part of the population.

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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.

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Roaring Twenties planned to replace the old model with a newer one, the Ford Model A The decision was a reaction to competition.

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Roaring Twenties took off from Roosevelt Field in New York and landed at Paris–Le Bourget Airport.

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Roaring Twenties's aircraft, the Spirit of St Louis, was a custom-built, single engine, single-seat monoplane.

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Roaring Twenties's publications were largely ignored at first, but it became a significant antibiotic in the 1930s.

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Roaring Twenties then cured four additional patients of eye infections, but failed to cure a fifth.

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Roaring Twenties followed with Babbitt, about a middle-aged businessman who rebels against his dull life and family, only to realize that the younger generation is as hypocritical as his own.

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Roaring Twenties's was young and fashionable, financially independent, and was an eager consumer of the latest fashions.

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Roaring Twenties's was recognized for her avant-garde designs; her clothing was a mixture of wearable, comfortable, and elegant.

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Roaring Twenties's was the one to introduce a different aesthetic into fashion, especially a different sense for what was feminine, and based her design on new ethics; she designed for an active woman, one that could feel at ease in her dress.

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Roaring Twenties's was the pioneer for women wearing pants and for the little black dress, which were signs of a more independent lifestyle.

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Roaring Twenties was a period of literary creativity, and works of several notable authors appeared during the period.

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Roaring Twenties had a single-engine airplane, the "Spirit of St Louis", which had been designed by Donald A Hall and custom built by Ryan Airlines of San Diego, California.

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Roaring Twenties was the breakout decade for sports across the modern world.

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Roaring Twenties'storian Richard Hofstadter, for example, wrote in 1955 that prohibition "was a pseudo-reform, a pinched, parochial substitute for reform" that "was carried about America by the rural-evangelical virus".

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