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This glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States is an alphabetical collection of colloquial expressions and their idiomatic meaning from the 1900s to the 1930s. This compilation highlights American slang from the 1920s and does not include foreign phrases.
1903 – Great Train Robbery movie opens. 1903 – Harley-Davidson Motor Company created. 1903 – Ford Motor Company formed. 1903 – First World Series. 1903 – Elkins Act. 1903 – Big stick ideology. 1903 – Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty. 1903 – Hay–Herrán Treaty. 1903 – United States Department of Commerce and Labor created.
The early history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.Both games have their origin in varieties of football played in Britain in the mid–19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal or run over a line, which in turn were based on the varieties of English public school football games.
The United Centers for Spiritual Living was founded by Ernest Holmes in 1927. A similar organization, the Society for Jewish Science, originally conceived by Rabbi Alfred G. Moses in the early 1900s, the movement was institutionalized in 1922 with Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein's. The New Thought movement extends around the world.
Portal. v. t. e. The historiography of the United States refers to the studies, sources, critical methods and interpretations used by scholars to study the history of the United States. While history examines the interplay of events in the past, historiography examines the secondary sources written by historians as books and articles, evaluates ...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Words coined in the 1900s. Words and phrases coined during the decade 1900s . 1850s. 1860s. 1870s. 1880s. 1890s. 1900s. 1910s.
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William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 [1] – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American actor, comedian, juggler, and writer. [2] Fields's career in show business began in vaudeville, where he attained international success as a silent juggler. He began to incorporate comedy into his act and was a featured comedian ...