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Thursday, May 19, 1927
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The Headlines
RIVAL NAVY SHELLS FORTS AT SHANGHAI; Strange Bombardment Comes Soon After Sudden Return of Chiang Kai-shek. RUMORS OF A COUP BY SUN Chiang, Now Reported Desperate, Brings Pressure to Raise Funds -- Arrests Merchant. RIVAL NAVY SHELLS FORTS AT SHANGHAI
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
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881)
- Ho Chi Minh (1890)
- Malcolm X (1925)
- Pol Pot (1925)
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762)
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
36,177 days ago
(99 years, 42 days)