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A Picture WITH Words by Chloe PrestonA studious looking little girl with spectacles balanced on her nose, sits among dictionaries as she works on countless crosswords
Bee Jackson dancing the charlestonDancer Bee Jackson demonstrating the Charleston which she was performing at the Piccadilly Revels cabaret at the Piccadilly Hotel after making a name for herself in America
Mlle. Lyska Kostio and her collection of dollsOne of the latest crazes in Paris in the early 1910s was doll-collecting. Apparently Mlle. Kostio took all her dolls with her when she travelled, and looked after them all herself
A new dance - the Truda-Trott, 1927Photographs demonstrating a new dance trend in 1927, the Truda-Trott devised in Austria as a compliment to the female Channel swimmer, Gertrude Ederle
The Charleston by Rose le QuesneHumorous illustration recording the difficulties in mastering the Charleston. Date: 1927
Two women playing Diabolo in France while a mechanic fixes their car. Date: 1907
Contract bridge craze - Ely Cuthbertson, USAContract bridge swept America in 1929 and 1930 - seen here is an expert player, Ely Cuthbertson, taking part in a tournament in New York. 1932
The CharlestonCouple energetically dancing the Charleston, the latest dance craze that would define the roaring twenties. 1928
The Turkey Trot, 1912Dancers Oscar and Suzette demonstrating the new dance craze, the Turkey Trot, presented minus the objectionable features which caused the teaching of the measure to be prohibited by the Bureau of
The Turkey Trot dance craze, 1912Dancers Oscar and Suzette demonstrate one of the new ballroom dance crazes sweeping London dance halls - the Turkey Trot. Date: 1912
The new Captain Lindbergh hat, all the rage in Paris in 1927, the year he made his record-breaking flight to Paris. It was built of grey felt and embossed in dull red. Date: 1927
Diabolo on Hampstead Heath, 1907Women playing diabolo at the height of the craze in 1907, helped by some heron on Hampstead Heath. Date: 1907
New sensation dance crazes, 1912Examples of dances gaining in popularity in 1912, which, The Tatler, says in bemusement, were, threatening to undermine the decorum of our ballrooms
Maurice and Florence WaltonTwo dancers who are teaching all of London to tango in 1913, when the craze dominated British dancefloors. Maurice and Florence Walton entertained diners at Princes
John Bull gets crossword feverThe mid-1920s crossword craze brings John Bull out in crossword fever as an epidemic of crossword puzzles hook the nation
Worthington Crosswords advertisementAn advertisement for Worthington Ales at the time of the craze for crosswords showing an engrossed crossword puzzler bumping into people and causing chaos in his wake as he walks along