Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin

The 1920s—that first foray into the Modern, that Age of Art—marked seismic shifts in the way we see (Cubism, Dadaism, et al.), hear (Hemingway and Hilda Doolittle, the poet known by the pen name H.D.), and interpret (psychoanalysis). It was the decade that forever changed American music and dance (Ethel Waters, the Charleston). Most…