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"One October day in nineteen-seventeen...She was just eighteen, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville."
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"I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father..."
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America joins WWI "Weren’t you in the Third Division during the war?’"
"Why, yes. I was in the Ninth Machine-Gun Battalion.""I was in the Seventh Infantry until June nineteen-eighteen. I knew I’d seen you somewhere before." -
"The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since. His name was Jay Gatsby and I didn’t lay eyes on him again for over four years-even after I’d met him on Long Island I didn’t realize it was the same man."
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"...a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War."
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"I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless. Instead of being the warm center of the world the middle-west now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe—so I decided to go east and learn the bond business."
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By signing the Armstice, WWI ends.
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"She had a debut after the Armistice..."
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Alcohol was banned in all of United States. Tom talking about Gatspy
"He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That’s one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn’t far wrong." -
"In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago with more pomp
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"A week after I left Santa Barbara Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night and ripped a front wheel off his car. The girl who was with him got into the papers too because her arm was broken-she was one of the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara Hotel."
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"Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay."
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"The next April Daisy had her little girl and they went to France for a year."
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Women gained the right to vote.
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"...so I decided to go east and learn the bond business."
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"When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I want- ed no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart."
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Scopes Monkey Trial ruled that teaching evolution in a state-funding school is illegal.
