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The word "roaring" was not so much about lions, and quite a bit about about the sound of social change: people taking chances, acting in non-conformist ways, and taking the society in a very different direction from what had come before. The 1920s was a time when music, dancing, modes of dress, and many social customs changed dramatically. Women entered careers never open to them before, black entertainers were able to use radio to be heard even in segregated cities, ideas previously expressed in private were now being expressed in public, there were new inventions, new technologies, new opportunities... I think of the word "roar" in the sense of people taking control of their lives and forging ahead with their own path. Unfortunately, the Great Depression thwarted and even stopped many of the changes, but for a few years in the 1920s, almost anything seemed possible.

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