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“There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the…

— Malcolm Cowley

“The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned…

— Dita Von Teese

“Well, ha-jolly-ha to YOU, young Stiffie-- with knobs on!”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“As I’ve said before, “the Mod generation”, contrary to popular belief, was not born in even 1958, but in the 1920s after a steady…

— Ruadhán J. McElroy

The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a renaissance period.…

— Tony Bennett

In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically…

— Hans Adolf Krebs

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

— David Rockefeller

“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“How paltry are the traces left behind by a life, even one concentrated around those supposed things of permanence called words. We spend our…

— john darnton

If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have…

— Lauren Bacall

I've loved Alfred Cortot's playing from an early age, and I never tire of hearing his recordings, particularly Chopin and Schumann from the 1920s…

— Stephen Hough

“The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether—very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be overtaken by…

— Bill Bryson

France has had socialist presidents on and off since the 1920s, and it remains a free country. Socialists have ruled in many South American…

— Max Boot

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

— Lionel Hampton