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Thursday, May 26, 1927

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The Headlines

PAYNE WHITNEY DIES SUDDENLY AT HOME; Financier, 51, Stricken With Indigestion in Tennis Game at Manhasset, L.I. WIFE SPEEDS TO HIM IN VAIN He Succumbs in 25 Minutes -Wealth Put at $100,000,000 -- Noted as Sportsman. PAYNE WHITNEY DIES SUDDENLY AT HOME

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Best-selling Sheet Music

My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

  • The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush

Flapper

bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy

Gangster

big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy

Catchphrases of 1927

  • You ain't heard nothin' yet!

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

36,171 days ago

(99 years, 36 days)