The twenties were the years when drinking was against the law, and the law was a bad joke because everyone knew of a local bar where liquor could be had. They were the years when organized crime ruled the cities,and the police seems powerless to do anything against it. Classical music was forgotten while jazz spread throughout the land, and men like Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie became the heroes of the young. The flapper was born in the twenties, with her bobbed hair and short skirts, she symbolized, perhaps more than anyone or anything else, America's break with the past. From Kathleen Yancey, English 102 Supplemental Guide (1989): 25.
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The twenties were no joke for plenty of reasons. Alcohol was prohibited, but that did not stop people from indulging in their drinking habits because there was a bar that served liquor in town. Crime took hold over the cities causing the police force to become helpless. Classical music fell by the wayside and jazz became the new wave of music. On a more positive note, there were a few heroes to the younger youth of the twenties, one including Louis Armstrong. Another figure appeared, and her name was the "flapper". She had short hair to match with her skirts of lacking-length. She became our nation's release from the past. (Yancey 25)
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