yesterwire.comBack to search

On the date

Wednesday, December 29, 1926

From the day

Memories from that day

No memories yet. Add yours if you remember this day.

The Headlines

ROOT CHIDES NATION AS LEAGUE DESERTER; GETS WILSON AWARD; America False to High Ideals by Being Content With Its Prosperity, He Says. WOULD JOIN TO KEEP PEACE Norman Davis Hails Him, at Wilson Anniversary Dinner, for Work on World Court. NATION OBSERVES THE DAY Morgenthau, White, Senator T.J. Walsh and Others Sound Wilson's Praises. ROOT CHIDES NATION AS LEAGUE DESERTER

Read in The New York Times →

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

36,318 days ago

(99 years, 183 days)