chapter 15 vocab Flashcards
wrote The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
important playwright
Eugene O’Neill
dominated women’s tennis
Helen Wills
first woman to swim the English Channel
Gertrude Ederle
The Sun Also Rises and Farewell to Arms criticize war
Ernest Hemingway
first weekly radio program
Amos n Andy
wrote poems celebrating youth
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Disney animated classic (first with sound)
Steamboat Willie
first “talkie” in motion pictures
The Jazz Singer
famous home run slugger
Babe Ruth
founded Negro baseball leagues
Rube Foster
wrote “Babbit’ to challenge conformity
Sinclair Lewis
painted scenes of NYC, southwest art
Georgia O’Keefee
pioneer female aviator
Amelia Earhard
made first solo flight across the Atlantic
Charles A. Lindbergh
sophisticated jazz artist
George Gershwin
most famous golfer of his time
Bobby Jones