1920 (52 page)

261: “Smoke of a brick-red dust,” quoted in www.americanpoems.com/poets/carlsandburg/12898.

263: “a curious restaurant,” Manchester,
p. 34
.

264: “was a heavy drinker,” Smith, Page, pp. 1007–8.

264: “he worked briefly,” ibid., p. 1008.

264: “was based on a story,” ibid., p. 1008.

264: “Only when the eye,” quoted in Gelb and Gelb,
pp. 261
–2.

265: “overthrown by his own fear,” Perrett,
p. 275
.

265: “striking and dramatic study,” Smith, p. 1008.

265: “a simon pure uncompromising American tragedy,” Gelb and Gelb, p. 634.

265: “had little plot,” Perrett,
p. 274
.

265: “Supposing I was to tell you,” O'Neill,
p. 85
.

266:
“slut,” O'Neill, 128.

266: “In its time,” Gelb and Gelb, p. 638.

266: “so full of meat,” quoted in ibid., p. 639.

266: “hid behind a pillar,” Perrett,
p. 274
.

266: “I have an innate feeling,” quoted in Gelb and Gelb, p. 638.

267: “Vicious Circle,” quoted in Frewin,
p. 36
.

267: “illuminating not only the world of theatre,” Hart,
p. 35
.

268: “nearly all famous,” ibid.,
p. 152
.

268: “[
New Yorker
art critic Murdock] Pemberton,” Yagoda,
p. 31
.

269: “Every girl,” quoted on algonquinroundtable.org/quotes.html.

269: “I know I'm drinking,” and “That woman speaks, and “I like to have a martini,” and “Men seldom make passes,” quoted on brunerbiz.com/humour/Algonquin-round-table-quotes/high_#4.

269: “You can lead a horticulture,” quoted in www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/4181000.html.

269: “I know a man,” and “We wish you,” quoted in Altman,
p. 168
.

269: “For an entire decade,” Meister,
p. 190
.

271: “The Algonquin Round Table,” quoted in Teichman,
Kaufman
,
p. 64
.

272: “These things don't last forever,” quoted in enwikipedia.org/wiki/AlgonquinRound Table/#Decline_of_the_Round_Table.

272: “These were no giants,” quoted in ibid.

273: “Americans had more steel,” quoted in www.manythings.org/voa/history/173.htm.

274: “Fate was a very serious musician,” quoted in Bergreen,
p. 144
.

275: “Best dance music,” quoted in Teachout,
p. 53
.

275: “Knowin' that my tone,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 73
.

276: “widely held to be,” Bryson,
p. 69
.

276: “‘Does Jazz Put the Sin,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 69
.

276: “a non-musical nineteenth-century slang,” Goodall,
p. 245
.

276: “from black patois,” and “as popularly applied,” Mordden,
p. 153
.

277: “trying to explain jazz,” Douglas, Ann, p. 451.

278: “Never before had that black community,” Fax,
p. 1
.

278: “Harlem was clean,” Miller, Nathan,
p. 220
.

278: “Du Bois encouraged Langston Hughes,” Parrish,
p. 220
.

279: “The idea of taking a residential community,” quoted in Schoener, ed.,
p. 79
.

279: “there was another part of it,” Hasse,
p. 114
.

279: “synonymous with the greatest Negro entertainment,” ibid.,
p. 132
.

279: “[e]legant, reserved without being stiff,” quoted in Miller, Donald L., p. 504.

279: “This was no ordinary night club,” Hasse,
p. 102
.

279:
“a backdrop painted with weeping willows,” Calloway,
p. 88
.

279: “brutes at the door,” quoted in Miller, Donald L., p. 515.

280: “However Ellington felt about it,” Hasse,
pp. 100
–101.

280: “his influence to have the owners,” Miller, Donald L., p. 515.

281: “feeling like a bull moose,” quoted in Morris,
Colonel
,
p. 215
.

281: “the nightclub capital of the world,” Miller, Donald L., p. 516.

281: “Long after the cascading lights,” Morris, Lloyd,
p. 333
.

283: “Now I can read his letters,” www.songlyrics.com/mamie-smith/crazy-blues-lyrics/.

283: “for the Hammond (Indiana) pros,” Stewart, Ed.,
pp. 44
–45.

283: “The play was about an Ethiopian,” Stewart, ed.,
p. 190
.

284: “that ultimately led,” ibid.,
p. 205
.

285: “I ain't got no quarrel,” and “Shall Negro sharecroppers,” quoted in www.iancfriedman.com/?=284.

286: “Long before
Native Son
,” Rodgers,
p. 310
.

286: “Mencken had made,” quoted in ibid.,
pp. 179
–180.

286: “buoyed up,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 180
.

287: “The Negro is primarily an artist,” Du Bois,
p. 287
.

287: “Above and beyond,” ibid.,
p. 320
.

287: “English contemporaries [of Eliot],” ibid.,
p. 112
.

288: “hoped to get from their friendship,” ibid.,
p. 94
.

288: “African guardian of souls,” www.poemhunter.com/poem/conversion.

290: “Play that thing,” quoted in Rampersad and Roessel, eds.,
p. 60
.

290: “Shake your brown feet, honey,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 29
.

291: “O, let America be,” quoted in allpoetry.com/poem/8495513-Let_America_Be_America_Again-by-Langston_Hughes.

291: “On the Mediterranean Sea,” Jackson, ed.,
p. 103
.

292: “slumbering but awful God,” ibid.,
p. 144
.

292: “What matters that I stormed,” ibid.,
p. 36
.

293: “a pillar of the Harlem intellectual community,” Miller, Donald L., p. 517.

293: “Locke was as much in his element,” Lewis,
pp. 87
–8.

293: “observed that European artists,” Huggins,
p. 80
.

294: “The Negro mind,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 116
.

294: “The only safeguard,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 115
.

294: “We have tomorrow,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 118
.

295: “laid the philosophical basis,” Douglas, Ann,
p. 116
.

296: “a hint of sexual frenzy,” Bryson,
p. 69
.

297: “Before the First World War,” Perrett,
p. 157
.

297: “The girl who jumped,” Moore,
p. 69
.

297:
“Originating with Southern blacks,” Boardman,
p. 16
.

298: “which involved hopping forward,” Bryson,
p. 69
.

298: “Everyone! Down on your heels,” quoted in www.allmusicals.com/lyrics/goodnews.varsitydrag/htm.

299: “And tell me, Niel,” Cather,
pp. 111
–112.

299: “There was a huge increase,” Burns,
Smoke
,
p. 175
.

299: “More women now do the same work,” ibid.,
p. 175
.

300: “Particularly when smoked by women,” Tate,
p. 24
.

300: “The amount of fabric,” Bryson,
p. 69
.

300: “breathtaking skimpiness,” Bryson,
p. 69
.

302: “The Roaring Twenties,” quoted in Miller, Donald L., p. 529.

303: “has fallen into oblivion,” Avrich,
Portraits
,
p. 167
.

304: “Once you register,” Avrich,
Sacco and Vanzetti
,
p. 59
.

304: “You heard Galleani speak,” quoted in enwikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Galleani.

305: “I have never heard,” Avrich,
Sacco and Vanzetti
,
p. 49
.

305: “Attending lectures,” Avrich,
Portraits
,
p. 173
.

306: “After selecting a target,” Gage,
p. 326
.

307: “fits what we know of him,” ibid.,
p. 326
.

307: “my uncle's bomb,” ibid.,
p. 326
.

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A

Abels, Jules, 134–135

Adams, Franklin Pierce, 267, 272

Aderhold, A. C., 108–109

African-American culture, 279–287, 294

African-American population, 74–78, 277, 287

African-American prose/poetry, 278, 285–294

agricultural regions, 12, 74, 89–92

Ah, Wilderness!
, 266

airplanes, 6–7, 100, 181, 192

alcohol consumption rates, 134–135

alcoholic beverages, 39–58, 125–137, 203.
See also
Prohibition

Alger, Horatio, 121

Algonquin Round Table, 267–272

Ali, Muhammad, 285

Allen, Frederick Lewis, 300

Altman, Billy, 267

America in the Twenties
, 100

American authors, 238–273, 278, 285–294

American Birth Control League, 157–159

American Century, The
, 59

American Chronicle: Six Decades in American Life, 1920–1980
, 162

American dream, xv–xvi, 121, 161

American Federation of Labor (AFL), 97

American Mercury
, 288

Amis, Kingsley, 73

Amsterdam News
, 279

Anarchist Portraits
, 23

anarchists, 23–24, 93, 227–230, 303–308

Anderson, Sherwood, 288

Anthony, Susan B., 59, 66–68, 301

Anti-Saloon League (ASL), 43–47, 126, 136, 233.
See also
Prohibition

Archer, Jules, 78

Armstrong, Louis, xvii, 69–74, 274–277,
282

Arnold, Benedict, 216

arts, xvi–xvii, 238–273, 277–295

Asbury, Herbert, 41, 130

authors, 238–273, 278, 285–294

automobiles, 5–8, 181, 192

Avrich, Paul, 23, 303–307

B

Baker, Josephine, 53, 292

Baldwin-Felts Detectives, 97–99, 103

Bankhead, Tallulah, 73, 267

Barnouw, Erik, 195

Barron, Clarence Walker, 162–163

baseball, 39, 70–71, 198, 285, 295, 302

Bechet, Sidney, 277

Beiderbecke, Bix, 277

Bell, Clive, 287

Benchley, Robert, 54, 267–269, 271

Bergreen, Laurence, 71, 72

Berkman, Alexander, 24, 157

Bernstein, Leonard, 73

Beyond the Horizon
, 265–267, 272

Bianchi, Charles P., 104

Bill of Rights, xiv, 60

Birmingham, Stephen, 132

birth control, 144–146, 150–159

birth-control clinics, 144, 150–151, 156–157, 301

black culture, 279–287, 294

Black History Month, 87

black population, 74–78, 277, 287

black prose/poetry, 278, 285–294

Blackwell, Henry Browne, 65–66

Blair, David H., 233

Blake, Eubie, 292

Blood and Power
, 55–56

blues, 70–74, 282–283, 293.
See also
music

Blum, John Morton, 183

Boardman, Barrington, 297

Bolden, Buddy, 70

Bolsheviks, 20, 93, 96, 227

Bones, James, 176

Bontemps, Arna, 285

Boorstin, Daniel, 5

bootleggers, 125–132, 136, 208–209, 233, 296.
See also
Prohibition

Boston Post
, 120, 162–167, 170, 195–196

Bound East for Cardiff
, 264

Brâncusi, Constantin, 293

Braque, Georges, 293

Brent, Margaret, 60–61, 142

Brill, A. A., 299

Britton, Nan, 218, 220

Brooks, John, 13, 14, 236

Broun, Heywood, 267

Brown v. Board of Education
, 295

Bryan, William Jennings, 177

Bryson, Bill, 11, 28, 30, 300

Buchanan, James, 201

Buck v. Bell
, 157

Buda, Carlo, 174, 304, 306

Buda, Mario, 21, 237, 306–307

Bureau of Investigation (BOI), 18–19, 22–26, 59, 82, 226–238, 306–307.
See also
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Burke, Billie, 302

Burn, Harry, 140

Burr, Aaron, 216

Business Week
, 112

Byrne, Ethel, 152–153, 159

C

Cady, Elizabeth, 63–64, 68, 301

Calloway, Cab, 279

Cannato, Vincent J., 32

Cantor, Norman F., 59

capitalism, xv, 19, 23, 93–95, 228, 234, 284, 304

Capone, Al, 126

Carnegie, Andrew, xvii, 7–8, 45, 93, 131, 275