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On the date

Tuesday, March 27, 1923

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The Headlines

$1,000 BOND, LAST GIFT BY MITCHELL TO GIRL, MISSING; Also Gave Dorothy Keenan Hundreds in Cash on Day Before She Was Killed.

Read in The New York Times →

Best-selling Sheet Music

Yes! We Have No Bananas

Frank Silver & Irving Cohn

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush

Flapper

bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy

Gangster

big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy

Catchphrases of 1923

  • Yes, We Have No Bananas

Tech Check

Bulldozer, 16mm Film & Hearing Aid (Vacuum Tube).

Cost of Living (1920)

Loaf of Bread

$0.11

Gallon of Gas

$0.30

Average Home

$6,296

New Car

$575

Time Elapsed

37,691 days ago

(103 years, 96 days)