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Smith, Ruby

social and family values:

effect of films and Hollywood on

see also women’s liberation and advancement

social anthropology

South Braintree murders

aftermath and executions

trials

speakeasies

Spengler, Oswald (1880-1936):

on nature of American

civilization

Spirit of St. Louis (Lindbergh’s monoplane)

sport:

expansion in popularity of

payment for stars

Stearns, Harold (1891-1943)

Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946)

Stephenson, David “Steve” (1891-1966)

Stock market crash of 1929

see also economics

Stoddard, Lothrop (1883-1950)

Stokowski, Leopold (1882-1977):

on jazz

Storyville

The Strange Death of President Harding (Means)

Subversive Chronicle

suicides and suicide malaise

Sullivan, Louis (1856-1924)

The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)

Sunday, Billy (1862-1935)

Swanson, Gloria (1899-1983)

on Arbuckle

Talmadge, Constance “Dutch” (1897-1973)

The Tattooed Countess (Van Vechten)

Taylor, Estelle (1894-1958)

Taylor, William Desmond (1872-1922)

Teapot Dome scandal

Tender is the Night (Fitzgerald)

Thayer, Webster (1857-1933)

The Theory of the Leisure Class (Veblen)

This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald)

Thomas, Olive (1894-1920)

Thompson, William Hale “Big Bill” (1869-1944)

Thurber, James (1894-1961):

on Alec Woollcot

on Harold Ross

Tilden, Bill (1893-1953)

Torrio, Johnny (1887-1957)

arrest of

return to New York

trade union activities

Transatlantic Review

transition

Tree, Iris (1897-1968)

The Trespasser (film)

Tunney, Gene (1897-1978)

Tyler, Bessie (d.1924)

United Artists (film studio)

United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

Valentino, Rudolph (1895-1926)

van Alen, William (1883-1954)

Van Vechten, Carl (1880-1964)

Vanity Fair

Vanzetti, Bartolomeo (1891-1927)

and Bridgewater payroll robbery

attempt

experience of US as immigrant

imprisonment of

political development of

and South Braintree murders

aftermath and executions

Veterans’ Bureau fraud

The Vortex (Coward)

Walker, C. J. (1867-1919)

Waller, Fats (1904-43)

Washington Post

The Waste Land (Eliot)

Watson, John (1878-1958)

The Weary Blues (Hughes)

Weeks, John (1860-1926)

welfare capitalism

Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)

White, E. B. (1899-1985)

White, William Allen (1868-1944)

on Albert Fall

clemency plea for Sacco and Vanzetti

on Harding

on Ku Klux Klan

white supremacy theories

see also racism, racial theory and discrimination

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

Willard, Jess (1881-1968)

Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)

Wills, Harry (1889-1958)

Wilson, Edmund (1895-1972)

on Chaplin

on The Waste Land

Wodehouse, P.G. (1881-1975)

Wolfe, Tom (1900-38)

women’s liberation and advancement

abortions

and beauty industry

and birth control

and cosmetics

and divorce

and dress fashion

effects of Prohibition

Lucy Stone League

Malcolm Cowley on

and smoking

and work

see also family and social values

Wood, Leonard (1860-1927)

Woollcot, Alec (1887-1943)

World War I effects:

on aviation

on personal behavior

social change

Wright, Frank Lloyd (1867-1959)

Wright, Richard (1908-1960)

Wright Aeronautical Company

Wright brothers, Wilbur (1867-1912) and Orville (1871-1948)

Yale, Frankie (1893-1928)