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Friday, July 29, 1921
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The Headlines
Lloyd George Now Expected to Come Here For Preliminary Parley on Pacific Problems; Meeting in Six Weeks Predicted
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
The Sheik of Araby
Harry B. Smith & Ted Snyder
The must-have
Raggedy Andy
On This Day
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Benito Mussolini (1883)
- Dag Hammarskjöld (1905)
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805)
- Isidor Rabi (1898)
- Eyvind Johnson (1900)
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
Time Elapsed
38,297 days ago
(104 years, 337 days)