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Sunday, April 16, 1922

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The Headlines

RUSSIANS PUT IN BIG WAR BILL TO ALLIES; LLOYD GEORGE RESPONDS WITH WARNING THEY MUST FIRST ACCEPT ALLIED CLAIMS; BELIEVED THEY WILL AGREE Is Only Course by Which Soviet Can Obtain Help at Genoa. ONE DEMAND STARTLES Rakovsky Asks Financial Committee for Immediate Payment of 2,000,000,000 Gold Francs. BRITISH PREMIER PATIENT Is Trying to Build a Bridge From Present Situation of Doubt to Real Achievement.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

My Buddy

Walter Donaldson

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 1922

  • Tutmania

Tech Check

Technicolor Films, Water Skiing & Audiometer.

Cost of Living (1920)

Loaf of Bread

$0.11

Gallon of Gas

$0.30

Average Home

$6,296

New Car

$575

Time Elapsed

38,036 days ago

(104 years, 76 days)