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Monday, April 24, 1922

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The Headlines

NOT TO PERPETUATE FEUDS; Premier Demands Co-operation for Peace, Little Entente Backs Him. RUSSIAN LOAN FIRST TOPIC Barthou for France Accepts the Soviet Reply as Basis for Discussion. RESERVATION ON TREATY Ten Powers Record Right to Declare Void Any Clauses of Russo-German Compact.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

My Buddy

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Raggedy Andy

On This Day

  • The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.

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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

38,028 days ago

(104 years, 68 days)