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Thursday, April 21, 1927
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The Headlines
FOUR ARE QUALIFIED AS SNYDER JURORS; MORE SPEED LIKELY; Three More Talesmen Satisfy Searching Queries of All Sides on the Third Day. 157 IN RANKS OF REJECTED Landscape Gardener, Clerk and Plumber Are the New Jurymen -- Two Picked in 20 Minutes. JURY BY TOMORROW SEEN Mrs. Snyder's Counsel Issue Statement on Procedure -- Newcombe Sees Reflection on Talesmen. FOUR ARE QUALIFIED AS SNYDER JURORS
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
- Elizabeth II (1926)
- Max Weber (1864)
- Charlotte Brontë (1816)
- Anthony Quinn (1915)
- Percy Williams Bridgman (1882)
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
36,206 days ago
(99 years, 71 days)