In 1929, driver Henry Segrave reached a record land speed of 231.44mph in his car, the Golden Arrow. [ citation needed] Olympics [ edit ]

Weimar culture was the flourishing of the arts and sciences in Germany during the Weimar Republic, from 1918 until Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933. [127] 1920s Berlin was at the hectic center of the Weimar culture. Although not part of Germany, German-speaking Austria, and particularly Vienna, is often included as part of Weimar culture. [128] Bauhaus was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts. Its goal of unifying art, craft, and technology became influential worldwide, especially in architecture. [129] The Lost Generation was composed of young people who came out of World War I disillusioned and cynical about the world. The term usually refers specifically to American literary notables who lived in Paris at the time. Famous members included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein who wrote novels and short stories criticizing the materialism they perceived to be rampant during this era. For decades biologists had been at work on the medicine that became penicillin. In 1928, Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovered a substance that killed a number of disease-causing bacteria. In 1929, he named the new substance penicillin. His publications were largely ignored at first, but it became a significant antibiotic in the 1930s. In 1930, Cecil George Paine, a pathologist at Sheffield Royal Infirmary, used penicillin to treat sycosis barbae, eruptions in beard follicles, but was unsuccessful. Moving to ophthalmia neonatorum, a gonococcal infection in infants, he achieved the first recorded cure with penicillin, on November 25, 1930. He then cured four additional patients (one adult and three infants) of eye infections, but failed to cure a fifth. [43] [44] [45] New infrastructure [ edit ]

Only about 300,000 vehicles were registered in 1918 in all of Canada, but by 1929, there were 1.9million. By 1929, the United States had just under 27,000,000 [26] motor vehicles registered. Automobile parts were being manufactured in Ontario, near Detroit, Michigan. The automotive industry's influence on other segments of the economy were widespread, jump starting industries such as steel production, highway building, motels, service stations, car dealerships, and new housing outside the urban core.

Murray, Robert K. (1969). The Harding Era 1921–1923: Warren G. Harding and his Administration. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-0541-6. The most popular American athlete of the 1920s was baseball player Babe Ruth. His characteristic home-run hitting heralded a new epoch in the history of the sport (the " live-ball era"), and his high style of living fascinated the nation and made him one of the highest-profile figures of the decade. Fans were enthralled in 1927 when Ruth hit 60 home runs, setting a new single-season home run record that was not broken until 1961. Together with another up-and-coming star named Lou Gehrig, Ruth laid the foundation of future New York Yankees dynasties. Immortalized in movies and magazine covers, young women's fashions of the 1920s set both a trend and social statement, a breaking-off from the rigid Victorian way of life. These young, rebellious, middle-class women, labeled 'flappers' by older generations, did away with the corset and donned slinky knee-length dresses, which exposed their legs and arms. The hairstyle of the decade was a chin-length bob, which had several popular variations. Cosmetics, which until the 1920s were not typically accepted in American society because of their association with prostitution, became extremely popular. [73]Ramsey, Glenn (2007). "The Rites of Artgenossen: Contesting Homosexual Political Culture in Weimar Germany". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 17 (1): 85–109. doi: 10.1353/sex.2008.0009. PMID 19260158. S2CID 22292105. Homosexuality became much more visible and somewhat more acceptable. London, New York, Paris, Rome, [96] and Berlin were important centers of the new ethic. [97] Historian Jason Crouthamel argues that in Germany, the First World War promoted homosexual emancipation because it provided an ideal of comradeship which redefined homosexuality and masculinity. The many gay rights groups in Weimar Germany favored a militarised rhetoric with a vision of a spiritually and politically emancipated hypermasculine gay man who fought to legitimize "friendship" and secure civil rights. [98] Ramsey explores several variations. On the left, the Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee ( Scientific-Humanitarian Committee; WhK) reasserted the traditional view that homosexuals were an effeminate " third sex" whose sexual ambiguity and nonconformity was biologically determined. The radical nationalist Gemeinschaft der Eigenen (Community of the Self-Owned) proudly proclaimed homosexuality as heir to the manly German and classical Greek traditions of homoerotic male bonding, which enhanced the arts and glorified relationships with young men. The politically centrist Bund für Menschenrecht (League for Human Rights) engaged in a struggle for human rights, advising gays to live in accordance with the mores of middle-class German respectability. [99] Ah, America – a country, where people feast and drink without chasers,” one character created bythese coauthors saidin the novel, The Golden Calf. With the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, that gave women the right to vote, American feminists attained the political equality they had been waiting for. A generational gap began to form between the "new" women of the 1920s and the previous generation. Prior to the 19th Amendment, feminists commonly thought women could not pursue both a career and a family successfully, believing one would inherently inhibit the development of the other. This mentality began to change in the 1920s, as more women began to desire not only successful careers of their own, but also families. [83] The "new" woman was less invested in social service than the progressive generations, and in tune with the consumerist spirit of the era, she was eager to compete and to find personal fulfillment. [84] Wainwright, M (1987). "The history of the therapeutic use of crude penicillin". Medical History. 31 (1): 41–50. doi: 10.1017/s0025727300046305. PMC 1139683. PMID 3543562.

The trio soon found themselves in the top 10 once again with the first single from Holiday, the Bunnell-penned " Tin Man", which reached number four, featuring cryptic lyrics set to a Wizard of Oz theme. " Lonely People" (written by Dan Peek [7]) followed Tin Man into the top 10 in early 1975, becoming Dan Peek's only credited song to reach that high on Billboard, peaking at number five. [4]High school and junior high school students were offered to play sports that they had not been able to play in the past. Several sports, such as golf, that had previously been unavailable to the middle-class finally became available. Cohen, Lizabeth (1989). "Encountering Mass Culture at the Grassroots: The Experience of Chicago Workers in the 1920s". American Quarterly. 41 (1): 6–33. doi: 10.2307/2713191. JSTOR 2713191.

a b Roy Porter (1999). The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity. W. W. Norton. pp.516–517. ISBN 978-0-393-24244-7. Christopher W. Wells, Car Country: Automobiles, Roads and the Shaping of the Modern American Landscape, 1890–1929 (2004).Alison Light, Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism between the Wars (1991) p. 9. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is about a group of expatriate Americans in Europe during the 1920s. the first edition of Little Golden America (1937) signed by Evgeny Petrov for the Soviet Consul in New York Jean Arens.