My favorite exhibition of all time was at The Met years ago, called 'Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.' — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
President Yeltsin's instincts were decent: he encouraged the marketplace, the press flourished, and everything started to open - even the KGB archives.… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“The crash did not cause the Depression: that was part of a far broader malaise. What it did was expose the weaknesses… — Lucy Moore Copy Share Image
“She sighs, breathing smoke through her lips. "Might as well dance.” — Genevieve Valentine Copy Share Image
Many Catholic parishes were segregated prior to the Civil Rights movement, and the first large contingent of African-American Catholic priests would enter… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
A seersucker suit is one of the most iconic styles dating from the 1920s and is still a gentleman's best bet when… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
“The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands and tens of… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
“After endless cajoling, rationalizing, ego stroking, and outright begging—all to no avail—Isa decided that what Marco didn’t know wouldn’t hurt him.” — Margarita Barresi Copy Share Image
“Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the… — Dan Gilbert Copy Share Image
A Japanese diplomat and jujitsu expert, Konde Maeda Kome, came to Brazil in the 1920s and there he met my grandfather, Gaston… — Rickson Gracie Copy Share Image
As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor… — Hugh Ferriss Copy Share Image
I was always interested in the 1920s and the gangster world, in general. — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
Since the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is no longer respectable. It was in the 1920s and '30s, but the Holocaust obviously changed that. — Andrew Neil Copy Share Image
“Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
“She murmured, “I love the imagery of Sappho, the warm summer air across the velvety darkness, the lover between love’s thighs.” She… — Paul A. Myers Copy Share Image
“Billy's native arrogance might well have been a gift of miffed genes, then come to splendid definition through the tests to which… — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
