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Monday, May 18, 1925
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The Headlines
1 DEAD, 6 HIT BY AUTO IN THIEF'S WILD RIDE; Driver in Stolen Car Collides With Four Others in Two-Mile Chase Uptown. IGNORES POLICE BULLETS But Is Seized in Last Crash and Held on Seven Charges, Including Drunkenness. 1 DEAD, 6 HIT BY AUTO IN THIEF'S WILD RIDE
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- Pope John Paul II (1920)
- Bertrand Russell (1872)
- Omar Khayyam (1048)
- Nicholas II (1868)
- Walter Gropius (1883)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Mechanical Television, The Leica I & Masking Tape.
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
36,908 days ago
(101 years, 43 days)