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Tuesday, November 20, 1923

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The Headlines

ALLIES AVERT SPLIT; REACH COMPROMISE ON NOTE TO GERMANY; Ambassadors Agree Concerning Military Control and the Hohenzollerns. NO MENTION OF PENALTIES But Germany Will Be Told Military Clauses of Treaty Will Be Enforced. ASSURANCES ON MONARCHY Envoy Shows Crown Prince's Renunciation of Rights; Says Berlin Opposes ex-Kaiser's Return. ALLIES AVERT SPLIT; REACH COMPROMISE

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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

37,454 days ago

(102 years, 224 days)