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Primarily set up in the post-World War I Princeton University, portrays the lives and morality of youth
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The spirit of the Roaring Twenties was marked by a general feeling of discontinuity associated with modernity and a break with traditions. Everything seemed to be feasible through modern technology. New technologies, especially automobiles, moving pictures and radio proliferated 'modernity' to a large part of the population. Formal decorative frills were shed in favor of practicality in both daily life and architecture. Also known as the Jazz Age.
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Set up in 1922 in the vicinity of New York City, is often credited as the symbolic meditation on the "Jazz Age" in American literature.
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About a group of expatriate Americans in Europe during the 1920s.
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Recounts the horrors of World War I and also the deep detachment from German civilian life felt by many men returning from the front.
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A severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the 20th century.
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An Expressionist black comedy set in New York City during the Great Depression.
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Mainly concerns a dance marathon during the Great Depression.
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About a journey during the Great Depression.
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Focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers who are forced from their home as drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agricultural industry occur during the Great Depression.
