Golden Twenties

Many of the tale’s characters are too caught up in the moment to notice that Germany’s brief Golden Twenties, with their flowering of open-mindedness, are crashing headlong into a hardscrabble economy and nationwide resentment.

It’s like a weird Golden Twenties “Fight Club,” which totally explains why Violet is so calm in the face of Spratt’s resignation.

But The Golden Twenties mostly concentrates on the high, wide & handsome aspects of the Jazz Age�Red Grange swivel-hipping toward the goal line, Dempsey and Firpo in the ring, Babe Ruth putting the ball and ball game away with a long clout to right field.

Of all the golden boys in the Golden Twenties, none glittered brighter than a fast-talking, fast-thinking young empire builder named Errett Lobban Cord.

Edna St. Vincent Milky, 58, fragile, elf-eyed poet laureate of the Golden Twenties; of a heart attack; in Austerlitz, N.Y.