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If you wish to indicate that a person or thing is superb, you would use this 20s phrase

Dorothy Parker's iconic portrayal of flappers, modern women of the 1920s expressing liberation through dress, speech, and behavior.

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If you wish to indicate that a person or thing is superb, you would use this 20s phrase

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  1. If you wish to indicate that a person or thing is superb, you would use this 20s phrase A) way cool! B) that’s the fact, Jack! C) the bee’s knees! D) H to the Izzo!

  2. “The Flapper” by Dorothy Parker The playful flapper here we see,The fairest of the fair.She's not what Grandma used to be, You might say, au contraire.Her girlish ways may make a stir,Her manners cause a scene,But there is no harm in her …

  3. _____ were modern women who expressed their liberated lifestyles in their dress, hair style, speech, and behavior. A) Movie directors B) Rum runners C) Senators D) Flappers

  4. “Breezy, slangy, and informal in manner; slim and boyish in form; with painted cheeks and lips; and a close-fitting helmet of hair; gay, plucky and confident.” This describes the well-known image of • flappers • bootleggers • gangsters • suffragists

  5. “The (current) magician David Blaine spent 44 days without food suspended above London in a glass box. Every day, mobs would show up to taunt him – flashing their bodies, firing golf balls and eggs up at his box, even sending up a remote-controlled helicopter with a freshly cooked hamburger.” This modern-day stunt has its origins in the 20s fad of A) marathon dancing B) the Charleston C) flagpole sitting D) silent movies

  6. Trading Unauthorized Music Online:popular music file-sharing service that ran afoul of the music industry Shut down in July 2001; $36 million in fines Shut down in December 2010

  7. The most important communications vehicle in the New Era, and the only one truly new to the 1920s, was A) the newspaper B) moving pictures C) commercial radio D) mass-circulation magazines

  8. “Between 1920 and 1930, the number of households with __________ rose from 20,000 to almost 14 million – a staggering increase of about 67,000%.” This new electrical appliance was the A) car B) washing machine C) radio D) motion picture

  9. The first cross-country radio network, the _____ was formed in 1927. A) Cable News Network B) Continental News Service C) National Broadcasting Company D) The New York Times Air Company

  10. All of the following were sports heroes of the 20s EXCEPT A) Gertrude Ederle B) George Herman Ruth C) Knute Rockne D) Clara Bow

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