The Roaring Twenties
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:07:00
What do you wanna look at Brooklyn for?
:07:02
- What are you going to do, George?
- Just a minute.

:07:07
That sucker jumped 3 feet in the air
and come down stiff as a board.

:07:12
Me? I'll still be in the saloon business.
:07:15
Prohibition law goes in next year.
:07:16
It's one thing to pass a law,
another to make it work.

:07:19
- There'll always be guys wanting to drink.
- They'll enforce that law.

:07:22
No, they haven't got a chance.
:07:24
How about you, Eddie?
:07:26
I'm gonna get my old job back
in that garage.

:07:28
Save my money,
someday have a shop of my own.

:07:30
It's my idea of heaven, boys.
:07:32
A grease bucket, a wrench
and a cracked cylinder.

:07:35
You wanna make a living the hard way.
:07:37
All I know is, I don't want
any more trouble. I've had some.

:07:44
What's the matter, Harvard?
Lose the Heinie?

:07:46
No, but he looks like a kid
about 15 years old.

:07:52
He won't be 16.
:07:57
Hey, it's all over, boys, cease firing!
The armistice has been signed!

:08:04
Woolworth Building, here I come!
:08:06
It's gonna be good to look
into a motor again.

:08:09
You know, I like this.
I think I'll take it with me.

:08:14
1919. The war is over,
and the people of New York...

:08:17
...are tiring of the constant triumphal
procession of returning troops.

:08:21
And still not all of them are back.
:08:23
There is alarming news that women's skirts
are going to become shorter...

:08:26
...already they are 6 inches
above the ankle.

:08:29
Bobbed hair is introduced,
but very timidly.

:08:31
A young upstart named Jack Dempsey
will meet Jess Willard...

:08:34
...for the heavyweight championship
of the world.

:08:36
People are talking about the high cost
of living. Everything is going up:

:08:40
Food, rent, clothing, taxes.
:08:42
The Prohibition amendment is ratified
by the necessary 36 states...

:08:46
...and becomes the law of the land.
:08:48
People are dancing
to the strains of "Dardanella."

:08:51
Finally, late in the year...
:08:52
...the last detachments of the American
forces come back from policing the Rhine...

:08:57
...almost forgotten by all
but their relatives and friends.


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