Trained in the rowdier juke joints of the 1920s, many of Bogan's songs, most of which she wrote herself, have thinly-veiled humorous sexual references.

In the late 1920s, Heigo became a benshi ( silent film narrator ) for Tokyo theaters showing foreign films, and quickly made a name for himself.

This type of farmer-labour co-operation became common throughout Western Canada, leading to the creation of the short-lived Progressive Party of Canada in the 1920s, and the more durable Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( Farmer-Labour-Socialist ) in Calgary, Alberta, in 1935, precursor to Canada's modern-day social democratic party, the New Democratic Party.

The Chicago Outfit, which subsequently became known as the " Capones ", was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and other illegal activities such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931.

It was largely due to the popularity of artists such as Blind Lemon Jefferson and contemporaries such as Blind Blake and Ma Rainey that Paramount became the leading recording company for the blues in the 1920s.

He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s.

With the success of The Gumps during the 1920s, it became commonplace for strips ( comedy-and adventure-laden alike ) to have lengthy stories spanning weeks or months.

By the early 1920s, unit operations became an important aspect of chemical engineering at MIT and other US universities, as well as at Imperial College London.

These include from the time of the Great Chicago Fire to about 1900, what became known as the Chicago Literary Renaissance in the 1910s and early 1920s, and the period of the Great Depression through the 1940s.

Programmes of this sort were initially discussed at least as early as the 1920s and were implemented in many countries, but only became widespread in the USA after the threat of nuclear weapons was realised.

These theories were first applied in the 1920s by Chinese scholars such as Guo Moruo, and became orthodoxy in academic study after 1949.

This troublesome device was superseded by thermionic diodes by the 1920s, but after high purity semiconductor materials became available, the crystal detector returned to dominant use with the advent of inexpensive fixed-germanium diodes in the 1950s.

He popularized the Dolchstoß terminology, and became a prominent right-wing leader in the 1920s.

“ On the Amazon ” from the 1920s musical Mr Cinders was an unusual choice but became an audience favorite in concerts and featured in “ Till Tomorrow ”, a documentary film about McLean produced by Bob Elfstrom.

Apparently Husserl and Heidegger had moved apart during the 1920s, which became clearer after 1928 when Husserl retired and Heidegger succeeded to his University chair.

A ketogenic diet ( high-fat, low-carbohydrate ) was first tested in the 1920s, but became less used with the advent of effective anticonvulsants.

In Kenya, Christian missionaries in the 1920s and 1930s forbade their adherents from practising it — in part because of the medical consequences, but also because the accompanying rituals were seen as highly sexualized — and as a result it became a focal point of the independence movement among the Kikuyu, the country's main ethnic group.

Motorised hearses became more widely accepted in the 1920s.

After trying various jobs, Bogart began acting in 1921 and became a regular in Broadway productions in the 1920s and 1930s.

Hearst began acquiring radio stations in the 1920s, and in 1948, he became the owner of one of the first television stations in the country, WBAL-TV in Baltimore.

The American heiress Alice Vanderbilt Morris ( 1874 – 1950 ) became interested in linguistics and the international auxiliary language movement in the early 1920s, and in 1924, Morris and her husband, Dave Hennen Morris, established the non-profit International Auxiliary Language Association ( IALA ) in New York City.

As a teenager in the 1920s, Sartre became attracted to philosophy upon reading Henri Bergson's essay Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness.

Promoting the concept of America as a Judeo-Christian nation became a political program in the 1920s, in response to the growth of anti-Semitism in America.

In the late 1920s he became a well-known typographer ; his best-known work was the catalogue for the Dammerstocksiedlung in Karlsruhe.

Hall reflected the appearance of a " mannish " woman in the 1920s: short cropped hair, tailored suits ( often with pants ), and monocle that became widely recognized as a " uniform ".

In the 1910s and 1920s, agrarianism garnered significant popular attention, but was eclipsed in the postwar period.

He was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s, and has been titled " Father of the Texas Blues ".

A popular trend during the 1920s and afterward was comedy in the form of animated cartoons.

Although he had a reckless, unpredictable, and violent nature that precluded him from attaining any court or government responsibility and led to the ruination of his estate, Oxford was noted in his own time as a patron of the arts, lyric poet, and playwright, and since the 1920s he has been the most popular alternative candidate proposed for the authorship of Shakespeare's works.

Having bobbed hair was popular among the flappers in the 1920s as a sign of rebellion against traditional roles for women.

From the 1910s until the 1920s he participated in anarchist activities and popular uprisings in various countries including Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Argentina and Cuba.

Even so, his other works remained very popular after his death, with The Master Key appearing on St. Nicholas Magazines survey of readers ' favorite books well into the 1920s.

In the 1920s Sennett's Bathing Beauties remained popular enough to provoke imitators like the Christie Studios ' Bathing Beauties ( counting Raquel Torres and Laura La Plante as alumni ) and Fox Film Corporation's " Sunshine Girls " ( counting Janet Gaynor as alumni ).

Films were widely popular in the 1920s, but it was foreign cinema that dominated the Soviet filmgoing market.

After the generally primitivistic / irrationalist aspect of pre-World War I Modernism, which for many modernists precluded any attachment to merely political solutions, and the neoclassicism of the 1920s, as represented most famously by T. S. Eliot and Igor Stravinsky — which rejected popular solutions to modern problems — the rise of Fascism, the Great Depression, and the march to war helped to radicalise a generation.

Since the 1920s, Oxford has been the most popular candidate among " anti-Stratfordians ," a collective term for adherents of the various alternative-authorship theories.

Jazz largely surpassed ragtime in mainstream popularity in the early 1920s, although ragtime compositions continue to be written up to the present, and periodic revivals of popular interest in ragtime occurred in the 1950s and the 1970s.

Ragtime also served as the roots for stride piano, a more improvisational piano style popular in the 1920s and 1930s.

However, it was less popular when commercial radio broadcasting began in the 1920s, mostly due to the need for an extra tube ( for the oscillator ), the generally higher cost of the receiver, and the level of technical skill required to operate it.

Such basic appliances as washing machines, clothes dryers, furnaces, exercise machines, refrigerators, freezers, electric stoves, and vacuum cleaners all became popular from the 1920s through the 1950s.

Electric boats were very popular from the 1880s until the 1920s, when the internal combustion engine took dominance.

Early sousaphones had bells, with bells popular in the 1920s.

The game was created in the Edo period and remained popular through the 1910s or 1920s.

In the mid and late 1920s Oliver's band transformed into a hybrid of the old New Orleans-style jazz band and the nationally popular larger dance band, and in 1926 was christened " King Oliver and His Dixie Syncopators ".

The Portuguese-ruled territory was introduced to several popular European and North American sports disciplines since the early urbanistic and economic booms of the 1920s and 1940s.

It was particularly popular among British, American and Russian writers in the 1920s and 1930s.

They were a popular form of transport for many years, peaking at more than 3, 000 in the 1920s.

The name Acme became popular for businesses by the 1920s, when alphabetized business telephone directories such as the Yellow Pages began to be widespread.

Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra, one of the most popular and influential jazz bands of the 1920s, recorded several ODJB compositions: