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On the date
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
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
The Sheik of Araby
Harry B. Smith & Ted Snyder
The must-have
Raggedy Andy
You Share a Birthday With
- Wilhelm Röntgen (1845)
- James Callaghan (1912)
- Gloria Swanson (1899)
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886)
- Eisaku Satō (1901)
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
38,421 days ago
(105 years, 96 days)