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Há 10 horas · The Roaring Twenties: Democratic defeats. The entire decade saw the Democrats as an ineffective minority in Congress and as a weak force in most Northern states. After the massive defeat in 1920, the Democrats recovered most of their lost territory in the Congressional elections of 1922.
Há 10 horas · The grid of avenues and cross streets of the theater district—an area known as the Roaring Forties, with the El Fey at its epicenter—was jammed with restaurants, nightclubs, and cabarets. This was where “society, the stage, the movies and the wealth and the fashion of the town go,” noted the Daily News , “in the hours when the gay set is at its best.”
Há 10 horas · But those roaring '20s are long gone. The 1929 Wall St crash heralded the Great Depression. And 1924 - a year of so much hope - had a foreboding end a few hundred kilometres east of Paris.
Há 10 horas · Ode to Oasi. Ermenegildo Zegna wrote the book on dapper Italian style. Now, a new coffee-table tome pays homage to its greatest creation—one that, hopefully, will endure long after the brand is gone. By Brad Nash 25/06/2024. Strolling through a storybook forest like Oasi Zegna in Northern Italy, one could easily (and, perhaps, understandably ...
Há 10 horas · June 25, 2024 / OUR KYOTO. By Charles Roche. In advance of our next print issue, KJ 107 (on the theme of Fire and Kyoto), Charles Roche, long-term Kyoto resident, reminisces about The Flame, a unique monthly community-based storytelling event held at his hospitable Papa Jon’s Eatery. As figurative keeper of the flame for three years, Charles ...
Há 10 horas · The title of Blok’s book and his fondness for chance encounters with mysterious, strikingly adorned women shows his familiarity with the urban lyrics of Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) and especially “To a Passerby,” in which a fleeting glimpse of a woman and her clothes allows the flâneur-poet to focus his attention, see past “the roaring street,” and be “born ...
