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Tuesday, June 7, 1927

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The Headlines

WHITNEY WILL GIVES MILLIONS TO CHARITY; Value of Legacies to Hospitals and to Education Put at $20,000,000 to $50,000,000. BULK OF ESTATE TO FAMILY F.P. Dunne and Two Other Friends Get $500,000 Each -- Two Horses Go to Brother. WHITNEY WILL GIVES MILLIONS TO CHARITY

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Best-selling Sheet Music

My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

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 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

36,159 days ago

(99 years, 24 days)