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Roaring Twenties
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English
Alternative forms
Roaring '20s
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
p Roaring Twenties 1
The 1920s, referring to the rapid economic expansion and modernization of the period.
en 2012 Armando Navarro Global Capitalist Crisis and the Second Great Depression Lexington Books 9780739170175 13 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZG8_b7tXcm8C&lpg=PA13&dq=%22Roaring%20Twenties%22%20black%20tuesday&hl=es&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q&f=false The economic boom and the “speculative orgy” that pervaded the Roaring Twenties faded abruptly during late October 1929 with the stock market crash (sometimes called the “Great Crash”) that precipitated the rise of The Great Depression.
See also
en Decades