Friday, July 22, 1921

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The Headlines

"Gone Dry," Retorts Lady Astor in Commons When Premier Asks What America Has Done

Best-selling Sheet Music

The Sheik of Araby

Harry B. Smith & Ted Snyder

The must-have

Raggedy Andy

On This Day

• Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887)
• Janusz Korczak (1878)
• Selman Waksman (1888)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784)
• Philip the Handsome (1478)

Slang

Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1920)