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Tuesday, July 12, 1927

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The Headlines

14 OLD PAINTINGS BOUGHT BY DUVEEN IN $2,500,000 DEAL; Noted Benson Collection of Works by Italian Masters to Be Sent Here. PURCHASE MADE IN LONDON Famous Group Is Representative of History of Art in the Six Principal Schools. RARE PICTURES IN THE LIST Madonna, by Titian, and Portrait of de Medici's Banking Partner and Son Are Among Them. FAMOUS ITALIAN PAINTINGS COMING TO AMERICA. 114 OLD PAINTINGS BOUGHT BY DUVEEN

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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

36,123 days ago

(98 years, 353 days)