i need to find a quote from the 1920's and i dont know any thing about the 1920's so what are some famouse people and what did they say?
2007-02-01 11:14:14 · 12 answers · asked by thirdrockloser 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
"All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening." Alexander Woolcott
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to." Dorothy Parker
"When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality." Al Capone
"Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure." F. Scott Fitzgerald
"No public man can be just a little crooked." Herbert Hoover
"The chief business of the American people is business." Calvin Coolidge
2007-02-01 11:47:42 · answer #1 · answered by puritanzouave 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
"Gentlemen do not read each other's mail" - Henry L. Stimson, U.S. Secretary of State, 1929.
Stimson said this as he closed down MI-8, the U.S. military and diplomatic codebreaking organisation under Herbert Yardley.
12 years later, it was only a renewed cryptography team under William Friedman which gave the U.S.A. its vital edge in the war in the Pacific. Ironically, Stimson was by then the Secretary for War, but he must have realised after Pearl Harbour that gentlemanly behaviour was no longer an option.
2007-02-01 21:06:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.saidwhat.co.uk/famousquotes/1920
2007-02-01 11:24:41 · answer #3 · answered by psstoffagain 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your best bet for finding quotes that are representative of the era and the thinking of the time are from Will Rogers.
He was as much a social commentator of the times as he was a comedian.
2007-02-01 12:22:21 · answer #4 · answered by angelthe5th 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?” – David Sarnoff’s associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920’s
2007-02-01 11:28:13 · answer #5 · answered by ♥ liz ♥ 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Shakespear: To be, or not to be. That's the queston.
I don't really know if that was from the 1920's but it's a quote.
Got to Ask.com for more informantion.
2007-02-01 11:24:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
"The chief business of the American people is business." Calvin Coolidge
23 skidoo! anonymous flapper
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" - Harry Warner, Warner Brothers
2007-02-01 11:24:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." H.G. Wells - a famous author.
2007-02-01 11:26:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Call your grandmother. I'm serious. Ask her, and not only will you probably get some good information to share, you'll make her feel important.
I had to answer how Virginia was named after the Queen if her name was Elizabeth. I couldn't find the answer anywhere. My grandmom told me it was because she was known as the Virgin Queen. I was the only one with the answer, and didn't she shine when I told her so!!!
2007-02-01 11:26:14 · answer #9 · answered by imjustasteph 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Where's my whisky....in the 20's you had the prohibition law...
2007-02-01 16:46:47 · answer #10 · answered by SHIH TZU SAYS 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋