Roaring Twenties
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He made a fortune speculating in stocks in the Roaring Twenties and then enlarged it during the Depression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
British music star FKA twigs is to play Josephine Baker in a new biopic of the Roaring Twenties icon who became a hero of the French Resistance and the American civil rights movement.
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
President Donald Trump hosted a “Great Gatsby” themed party for Halloween, complete with tuxedos, flapper dresses, jazz covers and cocktails that evoked the opulence of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Roaring Twenties.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025
"The Roaring Twenties saw major advances in science and technology. But the decade also brought the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression."
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2023
During the years right after my birth and well into the Roaring Twenties, the Greenbrier was very popular among the industrialists and other extremely wealthy people in American society.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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