1925
Gatsby's fictional time
1925 refers to the year, used attributively to date events, objects, or cultural phenomena from that period: a 1925 Rolls-Royce, the 1925 Scopes trial.
Like other years, it can evoke a historical moment—in this case, the Jazz Age, Prohibition-era America, and interwar Europe.
Illicit liquor establishment
- bootleggerIllegal liquor trafficker
- moonshineIllegally distilled spirits
- 18th AmendmentConstitutional liquor ban
- rum-runningIllicit alcohol trafficking
bathtub gin · temperance movement · smuggling · homebrew · Al Capone · raid · hip flask · organized crime
Pioneering jazz trumpeter, singer
- hot jazzEarly improvisational American music
- syncopationStressed unexpected beats
- Bessie SmithLegendary blues vocalist
- Jelly Roll MortonPioneering New Orleans pianist-composer
Duke Ellington · speakeasy · Harlem · Cotton Club · phonograph · gramophone · dance band · Charleston
Prosperous 1920s era
- Scopes Trial1925 evolution teaching case
- Model TFirst mass-produced automobile
- silent filmSoundless motion picture
- Harlem RenaissanceBlack arts explosion, 1920s
Calvin Coolidge · Mount Rushmore · Mein Kampf · Soviet Union · Lost Generation · Rudolph Valentino · Langston Hughes · Josephine Baker
- The Great GatsbyTwenties novel about obsession
- Lost GenerationDisillusioned postwar literary cohort
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- American DreamUS ethos of opportunity
Ernest Hemingway · Virginia Woolf · Mrs Dalloway · Gertrude Stein · T.S. Eliot · Aldous Huxley · West Egg · Daisy Buchanan
Relating to mathematical shapes
- chromeReflective metal coating
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
- streamlineRemove unnecessary elements
- Chrysler BuildingArt Deco Manhattan skyscraper
ornamentation · sunburst · lacquer · inlay · enamel · skyscraper · mosaic · zigzag
speakeasy
Illicit liquor establishment
- bootleggerIllegal liquor trafficker
- moonshineIllegally distilled spirits
- 18th AmendmentConstitutional liquor ban
rum-running · bathtub gin · temperance movement · smuggling · homebrew · Al Capone · raid · hip flask · organized crime · teetotalism
Louis Armstrong
Pioneering jazz trumpeter, singer
- hot jazzEarly improvisational American music
- syncopationStressed unexpected beats
- Bessie SmithLegendary blues vocalist
Duke Ellington · Jelly Roll Morton · speakeasy · Harlem · Cotton Club · phonograph · gramophone · dance band · Charleston · swing
Roaring Twenties
Prosperous 1920s era
- Scopes Trial1925 evolution teaching case
- Model TFirst mass-produced automobile
- silent filmSoundless motion picture
Calvin Coolidge · Harlem Renaissance · Mount Rushmore · Mein Kampf · Soviet Union · Lost Generation · Rudolph Valentino · Langston Hughes · Josephine Baker · Bessie Smith
F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Great GatsbyTwenties novel about obsession
- Lost GenerationDisillusioned postwar literary cohort
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
Ernest Hemingway · Virginia Woolf · Mrs Dalloway · Gertrude Stein · T.S. Eliot · Aldous Huxley · American Dream · West Egg · Daisy Buchanan · Nick Carraway
geometric
Relating to mathematical shapes
- chromeReflective metal coating
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
- streamlineRemove unnecessary elements
Chrysler Building · ornamentation · sunburst · lacquer · inlay · enamel · skyscraper · mosaic · zigzag · chevron