... a popular activity with the local youngster of the twenties, and were the cause of many contentious arguments between mother and daughter. They were a heated topic of young girls in F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise. Prior to the twenties, such behavior of the new woman such as petting was never to be tolerated. Traditionally, a couple would " go dancing, [then] they may ... ...

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