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☆ Jazz Age
a period of U.S. history in the 1920s noted for general prosperity, financial speculation, Prohibition, the emergence of organized crime, profound social, cultural, and literary change, and the influence of jazz
Etymology: ? < phrase attributed to F. Scott Fitzgerald
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