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Saturday, April 9, 1921
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The Headlines
HARDING NOW TURNS AGAINST ISOLATION IN WORLD AFFAIRS; Hughes's Stand on Mandates Found to Be Weakened by Our Present Position. FEAR PROSPERITY SETBACK Lack of American Co-operation With Allies, It Is Urged, Retards World Recovery.TREATY GAINING IN FAVORStronger Drift to Ratification Without League and to Move for New Association.
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
- Charles Baudelaire (1821)
- Leopold II of Belgium (1835)
- Elias Lönnrot (1802)
- Léon Blum (1872)
- Erich Ludendorff (1865)
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
38,408 days ago
(105 years, 83 days)