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Bell Ringer #4 -10/14/10

Bell Ringer #4 -10/14/10. Why was Albert Fall convicted of a felony? Give 2 uses for a household radio in the 1920s. What is significant about Charles Lindbergh?. The “Flapper”. New style of dress and attitude for young women, typically unmarried.

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Bell Ringer #4 -10/14/10

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  1. Bell Ringer #4 -10/14/10 • Why was Albert Fall convicted of a felony? • Give 2 uses for a household radio in the 1920s. • What is significant about Charles Lindbergh?

  2. The “Flapper” • New style of dress and attitude for young women, typically unmarried. • Short “pixie” haircut, frayed dresses, shoulders exposed, heavy make-up, cigarette, high heels, purse, beaded necklace. • She danced, stayed out late, socialized. • Independent!

  3. Flagpole-sitting was a fad from 1924 to 1929. Form of entertainment, usually by stunt masters. • Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly sat on a flagpole for 49 days in Atlantic City, New Jersey, setting the enduring record.Saddle stirrups were used to keep from falling off while dozing.

  4. How did shipwreck kelly start this? • Mr. Kelly's theory was that if he roosted in mid-air for 8 days his reward would be great. Mrs. Kelly, ministered to her husband from the base by a system of hoisting cords. She said that he won the nickname "Shipwreck" after surviving the Titanic disaster (1912), then entered the U.S. Navy, and became an airplane stunt performer after the War. • He trained himself to sleep for 10 minutes every hour on his stool. Lest he topple off while asleep, his thumbs were thrust tightly into holes in the eight-inches-in-diameter wooden seat.

  5. As he roosted, Mrs. Kelly passed up to him bottles of milk, broth, coffee—but no solid food. Any surplus he poured down a pipe running alongside the flagpole. He smoked, per day, approximately four packages of cigarettes. Cheery, he called down to reporters: "After 48 hours of this you don't mind anything!" • Hundreds of passersby loitered a moment to argue with one another whether or not he is a hero. Some went home and read from Webster's Dictionary: "Hero ... a person of distinguished ... fortitude in suffering. . . ." That seemed to cover Marathon Rooster Kelly.

  6. The Model T – made Affordable • Ford used an assembly line at his factories –same # of workers now made many more cars. By 1928, 15 million Model T’s had been sold! • The government began putting $$ into paving roads and highways.

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