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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The decade of the 1920s, especially in America, when economic growth, technological change, and the loosening of social codes encouraged a lively and uninhibited youth culture centered around the automobile, jazz music, and bootleg liquor.
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Like the Roaring Twenties decade that preceded the Great Depression, the Irrational Nineties that preceded our current decade were both golden ages for technology, scandal-plagued politicians, corporate greed, and unrestrained personal debt and speculation.
Sunday’s Breakfast Menu, April 20 - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Just as the Gilded Age turned into the Progressive Era, just as the Roaring Twenties and its excesses turned into the New Deal, be sure that the era of mega-greed is going to turn into an era of renewed accountability, lawfulness, modest compensation, honest taxation, and government by the people rather than by the banks.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jeffrey Sachs 2011
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It's easy to for the party's guests to believe their glee doesn't have to turn dour, but everyone knows what followed the Roaring Twenties - and I'll bet some people still know what follows an evening of too much bathtub gin.
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Like the Roaring Twenties decade that preceded the Great Depression, the Irrational Nineties that preceded our current decade were both golden ages for technology, scandal-plagued politicians, corporate greed, and unrestrained personal debt and speculation.
AroundTheCapitol.com 2008
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Like the Roaring Twenties decade that preceded the Great Depression, the Irrational Nineties that preceded our current decade were both golden ages for technology, scandal-plagued politicians, corporate greed, and unrestrained personal debt and speculation.
AroundTheCapitol.com 2008
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