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Wednesday, May 20, 1925
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The Headlines
COOLIDGE TO PRESS DRY LAW TO LIMIT, WATSON DECLARES; Senator Tells Couzens Committee That Every Agency of Government Will Be Used. SAYS PUBLIC CAN THEN ACT If Modification Is Wanted, the President, He Asserts, Believes the People Then Will Say So. GERMANS SENDING 'SCOTCH' Big Camouflaged Shipment Said to Be on the Way Here -- The Beginning of a Flood. COOLIDGE TO PRESS DRY LAW TO LIMIT
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
- Honoré de Balzac (1799)
- John Stuart Mill (1806)
- Sigrid Undset (1882)
- James Stewart (1908)
- Eduard Buchner (1860)
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
36,906 days ago
(101 years, 41 days)