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Wednesday, February 2, 1927
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The Headlines
CANTON ENDS NEGOTIATIONS; WILL SIGN BRITISH TREATY IF TROOPS QUIT SHANGHAI; CHEN STATES HIS POSITION He Says His Signature Now Would Amount to Duress. MORE TROOP SHIPS SAIL London Expects Government to Go Ahead With Plans to Protect Nationals. PUBLIC BACKS THE CABINET Advent of Chinese New Year Finds Great Forces Massing for Sanguinary Civil War.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
My Blue Heaven
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- James Joyce (1882)
- Ayn Rand (1905)
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926)
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754)
- Pope Benedict XIII (1650)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Electronic TV (Philo Farnsworth), Jukebox (Automatic) & Iron Lung.
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
36,283 days ago
(99 years, 148 days)