Roosevelt, Franklin, 89, 96
Rosher, Charles, 149
Ross, Dorothy, 43
Rough House Rosie (film), 56, 60
Runyon, Damon, 104
Ruth, Babe (George Herman), 134, 138
barnstorming tours of, 129, 132–33
baseball career of, 127–30
celebrity of, 6, 7, 93, 113, 130
entertainment career of, 92, 130–31, 132
income of, 133
media and, 132, 133–34
Ruth, George (father), 129
Ruth, Helen, 130
Ruth, Kate, 129
Saarinen, Eliel, 26
Sacco, Nicola, 7, 14, 29, 30, 31, 32, 46, 48
Sacco-Vanzetti case, 7, 10, 13, 14, 29, 30–32, 46, 48
Sacco-Vanzetti Anthology of Verse, The, 32
Sam ’n’ Henry, 182, 183–84
Sanders, E. C., 78
Schamberg, Morton, 23
Schulberg, Ben, 60, 61–62
Schulberg, Budd, 56, 62
Scopes Monkey Trial, 34
Scudder, Townsend, 104
Sedition Act (1918), 30, 33
Seventh Heaven (film), 149–50
sex
changing views on, 55, 64–65
premarital, 58, 61
Sharkey, Jack, 116, 119
Shaw, Arch W., 94
Sheeler, Charles, 12, 20–22, 26, 27, 196
Shocker, Urban, 128
Show Boat (Broadway musical), 10, 70, 73, 196
Show Boat (Ferber), 70–73
Shuffle Along (Broadway show), 168
Siam, King and Queen of, 139
Siegfried, André, 190, 191, 192–93, 194, 195, 198
silent film, 152–53
Sinclair, Upton, 32
Smith, Al, 89, 95, 101–2
Smith, Bessie, 158, 166
Smulyan, Susan, 180
Snyder, Albert, 99, 100
Snyder, Lorraine, 99, 100
Snyder, Ruth, 7, 10, 91, 93, 99–102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 109, 111, 112, 119, 134
Snyder-Gray trial, 99–104, 105, 106, 110, 112, 195
Soldier Field, 116, 124
“Song for a Dark Girl” (Hughes), 167
Sons of the American Revolution, 47–48
South
portrayal in film and literature of, 68–69, 70–74
racism in, 73–74, 75, 77–82, 88–89
women in, 68–71, 73
Spirit of St. Louis (airplane), 2–3, 4
spirituals, 164–65
sports
baseball, 122, 127–33
boxing, 113–22
college, 122, 123–27
football, 122–27
media and, 112–14, 120, 122–23, 125, 133–34
writing, 112–14, 120, 122–23, 124–26, 130, 133–34, 195
St. Cyr, Johnny, 159
Stella, Joseph, 23
Stieglitz, Alfred, 23
Still, William Grant, 165, 172
Strand, Paul, 23
Strange Death of President Harding (Means), 98
Stratton, John Roach, 103
Stratton, Samuel W., 31
Street Angel (film), 149
Struss, Karl, 149
Studio Basic Agreement, 147
Sunday, Billy, 103
Sunrise (film), 149
Susman, Warren, 8
Swanson, Gloria, 146
tabloid press, 93–94, 103, 105, 109, 195
Talmadge, Norma, 145–46
Talmey, Allene, 138
Tarbell, Ida, 94
Tate, Allen, 85
Taylor, William Desmond, 142
technology
industrial, 22, 26
musical works on, 27–28
radio, 174–75
sound and film, 151–52, 153
tenant farming, 78, 82, 85–86, 88, 89
Ten Commandments, The (film), 143
Thalberg, Irving, 147
Thayer, Webster, 29, 31, 32
Their Fathers’ God (Rolvaag), 45
Thomas, John, 159
Thompson, William Hale “Big Bill,” 47, 108
Tilden, Bill, 113
Time magazine, 186
Towards a New Architecture (Le Corbusier), 197
Townsend, Cordelia, 80–81
Tucker, Earl
“Snakehips,” 172
Tunney, Gene, 115–16, 117–22
“Twelve Southerners,” 85
Twenties in America, The (Carter), 8
Twilight Sleep (Wharton), 193–94
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 87
U.S. v. Zenith Radio Corporation, 176
United Press International, 83
University of Southern California (USC), 61, 124, 127
Unkafer, Elizabeth, 107, 108
Urban, Joseph, 168
Using Radio in Sales Promotion (Felix), 185, 187
Vanity Fair, 21, 109
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 7, 14, 29, 30, 31, 32, 46, 48. See also Sacco-Vanzetti case
Varèse, Edgar, 165
vaudeville, 70, 132, 183, 184
Velez, Lupe, 142
Vicksburg, Mississippi, 78, 79
Voigt, David, 130
Walsh, Christy, 125, 132, 133
Walsh, Raoul, 147
Ward, John W., 3
Warren, Robert Penn, 85
Washingtonians, 169, 172
Washington Star, 182
Watkins, Maurine, 103, 107, 108–9
Wayne, John, 127
We Accept with Pleasure (DeVoto), 32
Weismiller, Johnny, 134
Wescott, Glenway, 15, 44, 46, 47, 49
Wessell, Henri, 172
Weston, Edward, 23
WGN (Chicago radio station), 177, 182, 184
Wharton, Edith, 193–94
What Can a Man Believe? (Barton), 36, 42
White, Wallace, 176
White, Walter, 79, 81–82
White, William Allen, 94, 95
Whiteman, Paul, 11, 160, 161–63, 165, 169, 170, 172, 188
“Whiteman Stomp,” 162
Whitman, Walt, 25
“Wild Man Blues,” 159
Willard, Jess, 116
Williams, Bert, 182
Williams, William Carlos, 28
Wills, Helen, 113
Wilson, Edith, 172
Wilson, Joan Hoff, 94, 95
Wings (film), 56, 60, 149, 150
women
boxing and, 115
as criminals, 108–9 (see also Snyder, Ruth)
feminism and, 53–55
increased opportunity of, 52, 53, 58, 68, 71, 73, 196
“new woman” portrayal of, 10, 52, 53, 55, 58, 61, 65, 66, 67, 89, 109, 138, 196
portrayal of in movies and plays, 55–56, 59, 68–72
southern, 68–71, 73
Woods, Frank, 147
Woolcott, Alexander, 106
Wooster, Stanton, 2
Work, John Wesley, 165
Wrightman, Patricia, 98
Wrightman, Richard, 97, 98
Year the World Went Mad, The (Churchill), 7
Ziegfeld, Florenz, 168