keywords It is strange but true, how the simple act of survival engenders within the survivors of both minor and major calamities a sort of febrile lust for living; which explains the enormous bulges in the birth rates of many states after WW1 and WW2. It is a natural human urge, after having passed through the valley of death, to reaffirm the joys of life and of living and loving, and despite the harsh conditions, poor people in the 1920s enjoyed themselves as much as was possible within their... Sign in to see full entry.