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The 1920s also spawned a new age of American playwright with the emergence of Eugene O ' Neill, whose plays Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie, The Hairy Ape, Strange Interlude and Mourning Becomes Electra proved that there was an audience for serious drama on Broadway, and O ' Neill's success paved the way for major dramatists like Elmer Rice, Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller, as well as writers of comedy like George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.
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She also was the original GOP national committeewoman from New Jersey in the early 1920s following adoption of the women's suffrage amendment.
Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.
During the 1920s, the ACLU expanded its scope to also include protecting the free speech rights of artists and striking workers, and working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) to combat racism.
The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Guiler pursued his banking career and Nin began to pursue her interest in writing ; in her diaries she also mentions having trained as a flamenco dancer in Paris in the mid-to-late 1920s.
The 1920s also saw a major expansion in industry.
Ecology also has developed through contributions from other nations, including Russia's Vladimir Vernadsky and his founding of the biosphere concept in the 1920s and Japan's Kinji Imanishi and his concepts of harmony in nature and habitat segregation in the 1950s.
Increased use of the forward pass encouraged adoption of a narrower ball, starting with changes in the 1920s which enhanced rifled throwing and also spiral punting.
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.
Radio Netherlands, heard worldwide via shortwave radio since the 1920s, is also based here.
" The Spaniards also experienced much trouble with the neighbouring Rif tribes under Abdelkrim al-Khattabi in the early 1920s.
His depictions of legless and disfigured veterans — a common sight on Berlin's streets in the 1920s — unveil the ugly side of war and illustrate their forgotten status within contemporary German society, a concept also developed in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front.
The development of Russian cinema in the 1920s by such filmmakers as Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein saw considerable progress in the use of the motion picture as a propaganda tool, yet it also served to develop the art of moviemaking.
Other examples include the American Renaissance of the 1820s-60s, referring mainly to literature, and the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, referring mainly to literature but also to music and the visual arts.
( The term “ race hatred ” had also been used by sociologist Frederick Hertz in the late 1920s.
Ragtime also served as the roots for stride piano, a more improvisational piano style popular in the 1920s and 1930s.
The carbon microphone was also used in radio broadcasting and public address work through the 1920s.
Guising also involved going to wealthy homes, and in the 1920s, boys went guising at Halloween up to the affluent Thorntonhall, South Lanarkshire.
William Lyon Mackenzie King, PC, OM, CMG ( December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950 ), also commonly known as Mackenzie King, was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s.
It was followed in 1794 by the celebrated View of the Evidences of Christianity, which was also added to the examinations at Cambridge, remaining on the syllabus until the 1920s.
The 1920s also experienced the rise of the far right and fascism in Europe and elsewhere, being perceived as a solution to prevent the spread of Communism.
: See also Social issues of the 1920s
Some players, especially those who find the 20K excessively heavy for marching, prefer the slightly smaller King model 1250, first made in the late 1920s and also still in production as the model 2350.
The work of Georg Lukács also touches on the nature of literary genres, appearing separately but around the same time ( 1920s – 1930s ) as Bakhtin.
The Indus Valley Civilization is also known as the Harappan Civilization, as the first of its cities to be unearthed was located at Harappa, excavated in the 1920s in what was at the time the Punjab province of British India ( now in Pakistan ).
The first half of the 1920s was a particularly lean period for composing but Ravel did complete successful concert tours to Amsterdam, Milan, London, Madrid, and Vienna, which also boosted his fame.
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Toward the end of the 1920s, the introduction of sound into movies made possible dramatic new film styles and the use of verbal humour.
In the late 1920s under Stalin, the party engaged in a heavy recruitment campaign ( the " Lenin Levy ") of new members from both the working class and rural areas.
Forbes, however, emphasizes that the precipitous decline did not occur until after the First World War during the 1920s when new railway policies were implemented.
In the 1920s, important founders of the new style such as Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey began their work.
# In Soviet filmmaking of the 1920s, " montage " was a method of juxtaposing shots to derive new meaning that did not exist in either shot alone.
In the 1920s a new mould-etch process was invented, in which art was etched directly into the mould, so that each cast piece emerged from the mould with the image already on the surface of the glass.
From the late 1920s he was concerned with social housing, inexpensive production methods, new materials, prefabrication and standardisation.
During the 1920s, several improvements were put in place, such as a new 74 cubic inch ( 1, 200 cc ) V-Twin, introduced in 1922, and the " Teardrop " gas tank in 1925.
Mirroring the earlier booms in financial speculations in performance fees-structured investment vehicles of the 1920s and 1960s, during the 1990s the number of hedge funds increased significantly, with investments provided by the new wealth that was created during the 1990s stock market rise.
In the 1920s and ' 30s the company played a key role in the development of new chemical products, including the dyestuff phthalocyanine ( 1929 ), the acrylic plastic Perspex ( 1932 ), Dulux paints ( 1932, co-developed with DuPont ), polyethylene ( 1937 ) and polyethylene terephthalate fibre known as Terylene ( 1941 ).
Baskerville's work was criticized by jealous competitors and soon fell out of favour, but since the 1920s many new fonts have been released by Linotype, Monotype, and other type foundries – revivals of his work and mostly called ' Baskerville '.
Blues and Reds contested local elections into the 1920s, but Islandwide party politics lay dormant until the post-Occupation elections under the new Constitution of 1948.
The Japanese developments in the bridgeless zithers include the one-stringed koto ( ichigenkin ) and two-stringed koto ( nigenkin or yakumo goto ) around the 1920s, Goro Morita created a new version of the two-stringed goto.
Schlick's Vienna Circle, along with Hans Reichenbach's Berlin Circle, propagated the new doctrines more widely during the 1920s and early 1930s.
< http :// www. oxfordreference. com > 27 October 2011 </ ref > Clement Greenberg sees modernism ending in the 1930s, with the exception of the visual and performing arts, but with regard to music, Paul Griffiths notes that, while modernism " seemed to be a spent force " by the late 1920s, after World War II, " a new generation of composers-Boulez, Barraqué, Babbitt, Nono, Stockhausen, Xenakis " revived modernism .< ref > Paul Griffiths " modernism " The Oxford Companion to Music.
To the north, the foreshore used to be around Government Avenue in the 1920s but it shifted to a new road, King Faisal Road, in the early 1930s which became the coastal road.
From the 1920s onwards, the Modern movement sought to design and plan cities which followed the logic of the new model of industrial mass production ; reverting to large-scale solutions, aesthetic standardisation and prefabricated design solutions ( Goodchild 1990 ).
The migration of African Americans to the urban industrial centers of Chicago, Detroit, New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere in the 1920s and 1930s created a new market for jazz, blues, and related genres of music, often performed by full-time musicians, either working alone or in small groups.
Also in 1949, a new version of a 1920s blues song, " Ain't Nobody's Business " was a # 4 hit for Jimmy Witherspoon, and Louis Jordan and the Tympany Five once again made the top 5 with " Saturday Night Fish Fry ".
In the 1920s and 1930s, the Atlantropa project proposed damming the strait to generate large amounts of electricity and lower the sea level of the Mediterranean by several hundreds of meters to create large new lands for settlement.
In the late 1920s, the new quantum mechanics showed that the chemical bonds between atoms were examples of ( quantum ) electrical forces, justifying Dirac's boast that " the underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known ".
The trend was not new, as Béla Barényi is credited with having conceived the basic design in the middle 1920s.
Also, the infrastructure and vehicles were relatively new, having only replaced Cable Tram equipment in the 1920s – 1940s.
The Skeptical School of early Chinese history, started by Gu Jiegang in the 1920s, was the first group of scholars within China to seriously question the traditional story of its early history: " the later the time, the longer the legendary period of earlier history ... early Chinese history is a tale told and retold for generations, during which new elements were added to the front end ".
The work with a new town plan was started in the late 1920s, but the proposal was disputed ; the inhabitants ( and property owners ) thought the roads were too wide.
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