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Tuesday, February 8, 1921
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The Headlines
ARMED MEN ABDUCT GIRL AFTER BATTE; Shots Fired When Fifteen Strangers Seize Woman in Scarsdale Home.ESCAPE WITH HER IN AUTOLeader Claims Her as Wife-- Four of Family Injured Trying to Save Her.
Read in The New York Times →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
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 Recession — Severe deflation and collapse of agricultural prices.
Time Elapsed
38,468 days ago
(105 years, 143 days)