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Wednesday, November 24, 1926

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The Headlines

WILLIE STEVENS ON STAND DENIES MURDER; REMAINS CALM UNDER CROSS-EXAMINATION; FINGERPRINT NOT HIS, THREE TESTIFY; WITNESS A GREAT SURPRISE Weighs His Words and Speaks Clearly as He Admits Owning Pistol. EVADES SIMPSON'S TRAPS " Absolutely Nothing at All," Is Reply When Asked if He Had Anything to Do With Crime. MRS. HALL UNDER A STRAIN Defense Witness Hints That Calling Card Found at the Scene Was "Doctored." WILLIE STEVENS DENIES MURDER

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Black Bottom

Ray Henderson

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 1926

  • It girl

Tech Check

Liquid Fuel Rocket, Talking Movies (Vitaphone) & Aerosol Spray Can.

Cost of Living (1920)

Loaf of Bread

$0.11

Gallon of Gas

$0.30

Average Home

$6,296

New Car

$575

Time Elapsed

36,354 days ago

(99 years, 219 days)