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Sunday, March 27, 1921

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The Headlines

FRENCH APPLAUD HUGHES'S REPLY TO LENIN'S APPEAL; Convinced That Soviet Dictator"s 'Conversion' Is a Shamfor Foreign Consumption.A GIBE AT LLOYD GEORGEParis Editor Says He Is NotFooled, but Has Throwna Sop to Labor.KRASSIN DEFENDS HIS CHIEFSays He Is Sure Lenin "Will NeverAbandon His CommunisticPrinciples." FRENCH APPLAUD HUGHES'S REPLY

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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

38,421 days ago

(105 years, 96 days)