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On the date

Tuesday, February 1, 1921

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight

Snowflakes melt against my Leica’s lens, blurring the wool silhouettes of dapper fellas darting toward the subway. A newsie on the corner screams about Mrs. Witherell’s rescue from that mountain cabin, his ink-stained fingers trembling in the biting February wind. Nearby, a phonograph shop blares the jaunty tin-pan melody of *The Sheik of Araby by Harry B. Smith & Ted Snyder*, and a young sheba in an ermine stole catches my eye, winking at the lens. "Ain't we got fun?" she chirps, adjusting her cloche hat before vanishing into the charcoal haze of the city.

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The Headlines

MRS. WITHERELL SAFE; WAS NOT HARMED; Police, on Tip From Telephone Operator, Find Kidnapped Woman in Mountain Cabin. ABDUCTORS PLEAD GUILTY Two Cousins Sought Revenge on Father-in-Law for Blocking Deal on Boat. Thought It Was Cousin Returning. Tells of Her Experiences. MRS. WHITERELL RESCUED, UNHARMED All We Want is Money." Treated Her Bruises. Tells of the Rescue. Sought Revenge on Her Father.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

The Sheik of Araby

Harry B. Smith & Ted Snyder

The must-have

Raggedy Andy

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush

Flapper

bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy

Gangster

big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy

Catchphrases of 1921

  • Ain't we got fun?

Tech Check

Robots (The Term 'Robot'), Polygraph (Modern) & Insulin (Medical Tech).

Cost of Living (1920)

Loaf of Bread

$0.11

Gallon of Gas

$0.30

Average Home

$6,296

New Car

$575

Meanwhile

  • Post-WWI RecessionSevere deflation and collapse of agricultural prices.

Time Elapsed

38,475 days ago

(105 years, 150 days)