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Thursday, December 20, 1923

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The Headlines

DR. PARKS DECLARES HE DEFIED NEITHER CREED NOR BISHOP; Dogma in Sermon, He Says, Is Same as He Has Preached for Thirty Years.

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

37,423 days ago

(102 years, 193 days)