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ANSWERS FOR 1920s
- A "breadboard" radio was a radio mounted on a wooden plank with no cabinet covering its components.
- Louis Armstrong learned to play the cornet in the waif's home.
- The amendment was introduced 42 years earlier, in 1878.
- "Babe" got his name from the Orioles players, who joked about the manager's habit of taking young players with potential under his wing.
- The Chrysler Building (NYC), the Empire State Building (NYC), and the Collins Park Hotel (Miami Beach) are the three examples of Art Deco architecture.
- Lindbergh flew the airmail route between Chicago and St. Louis, with stops each day in Peoria and in Springfield, Illinois.
- Flappers wore their hair short or "bobbed"; they wore makeup (which they might apply in public); and they wore baggy dresses that often exposed their arms as well as their legs from the knee down.
- Mead's best-known book was Coming of Age in Samoa.
- The news headline on October 25, the morning after Black Thursday, read WORST STOCK CRASH STEMMED BY BANKS.
- Edward Hopper painted Drug Store in 1927.
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