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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
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
- Pablo Neruda (1904)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817)
- Amedeo Modigliani (1884)
- Buckminster Fuller (1895)
- Claude Bernard (1813)
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
36,123 days ago
(98 years, 353 days)