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Tuesday, December 12, 1922
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The Headlines
HUSTON TO SELL OUT HIS YANKEE INTEREST; Negotiations On for Disposal of His Half of the Baseball Club.RUPPERT IS ONE BIDDERFranchise Cost Half a Millionin 1915--Now Estimated asWorth at Least $3,000,000.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
My Buddy
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Raggedy Andy
You Share a Birthday With
- Gustave Flaubert (1821)
- Frank Sinatra (1915)
- Edvard Munch (1863)
- Alfred Werner (1866)
- Edward G. Robinson (1893)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
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
37,796 days ago
(103 years, 201 days)