THE term “Bungalow” provides a curious example of how we Americans overwork a word that is euphonious and the meaning of which, because of the word’s comparatively recent assimilation into the language, is somewhat uncertain. One hears nearly every type of country or suburban home called a bungalow, provided only that the house is somewhat informal or picturesque in its lines. Someone has facetiously remarked that in the new dictionaries a bungalow should be defined as ” a house that looks as if it had been built for less money than it actually cost.”
It seems worth while, in view of the popular misconception of the word’s actual significance, to look into its derivation with the purpose of finding out just when it may properly be applied and when it is a misnomer.Â
According to the authorities, a bungalow is a ” Bengalese house,” but it is not the typical native’s home in India. These are of an entirely different type from our conception of the word. The only bungalows to be seen in India are the ” Rest Houses,” erected by the English government along the main roads of travel. These are inns or hotels, consisting of a large central building divided in the middle by a hall separating large rooms, with a kitchen in a separate building that is reached through a covered passageway. In these Rest Houses the bedrooms are in still another adjoining structure, always a long low building with the bed-chambers opening upon a straight corridor. A low, rambling mass, with wide verandas, overhanging eaves, floors of stone or concrete and single-story construction, are the characteristics of the true Indian bungalow. There is never a second story, never dormer windows to break the long simple roof planes that appear to come down, particularly at the ends or corners, nearly to the ground.
HUNDREDS OF PLANTATION HANDS were gathered on the bank of a Southern river to take part in a scene of exhortation and baptism. Converts in white robes were marshaled in long lines to wait for the ecstatic privilege of wading out into midstream one by one, and receiving the baptismal rite. Meanwhile the evangelist, a prepossessing young negro with a resonant voice, appealed for more repentant sinners to approach the mercy seat. From his little platform he hurled exhortation and warning at the sea of dark faces before him, and suddenly an electrical response swept over them. Devout ejaculations burst from their lips, their bodies swayed in emotional sympathy, and their arms were tossed skyward. 
A Pioneer in the fantastic and the grotesque, is what Henry McBride, the art critic, calls Renee Prahar, the sculptor. And a New York gallery is showing so much of her work as to support the attribution.
An article taken from “The Literary Digest” of March 5, 1921.
Here is an excerpt from a twenties book on hairstyling:
Reading was a popular past-time and magazines of the twenties are full of short stories. Although radio’s were increasing in popularity they were still expensive and so reading was a common activity.
“Decorative Draperies and Upholstery” by Edward Thorne was first published in 1929 and contains 64 stunning inspirational illustrations.
The Toyota Prius is claimed to be the world’s first commercially mass-produced and marketed hybrid vehicle. It was first sold in Japan in 1997 and then world-wide in 2001.
Many homes of the twenties were decorated in the Arts & Crafts style, variations of traditional Georgian and Colonial styles, or Art Moderne which embraced the marvels of the Machine Age of the 1920′s and 1930′s.