The Roaring Life of Twenties
Across
- 1. Baseball team that won the World series against the Cardinals.
- 4. Type of hairstyle worn by the flappers.
- 5. Female blues singer, outstanding vocalist of the decade.
- 6. What 11 letter word does everyone pronounce "incorrectly."
- 7. "This Side of Paradise" and "The Great Gatsby," revealed the negative side of the period's freedom.
- 10. A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture.
- 13. Was the movement's best-known poet.
- 14. Immigrant from Jamaica, believed that African Americans should build a separate society.
- 15. Famous trial lawyer to defend Scopes.
- 16. First American to win a Nobel Prize in literature.
- 18. Trial that was a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society
Down
- 2. A set of principals granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women.
- 3. Gene Tunney defeated this former heavyweight champion.
- 5. New York Yankees slugger who smashed home run after home run.
- 7. Protest movement grounded in a literal, or non symbolic, interpretation of the Bible.
- 8. This artist produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York.
- 9. A poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary-"Lift every voice and sing."
- 11. Young trumpet player, joined the Oliver's group.
- 12. Football team that beat the Denver Broncos to win the Super Bowl.
- 17. Son of a one-time slave, became a major dramatic actor.