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"Innocence was something that most mothers wished very much their daughters had. For the 1920s brought on a drastic revolt against the prewar mores of gentility; and though the revolutionary symbols now seem trivial, they were sufficiently bizarre to alarm the middle-aged. Corsets were abandoned along with the Viennese waltz. Long skirts were scandalously abbreviated, and long hair was "bobbed." Young women smoked, and in public, and danced into the dawn to the sensual moan of
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