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Friday, July 22, 1927
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The Headlines
DEMPSEY HALF-WAY ON COME-BACK ROAD; Returns to the Lists a Supposed Hollow Shell, but Still Holding Dynamite. NOW IS POISED FOR TUNNEY Stands on Threshold of Achieving What No Other Dethroned Heavyweight Has Done. DEMPSEY HALF WAY ON COME-BACK ROAD
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
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887)
- Janusz Korczak (1878)
- Selman Waksman (1888)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784)
- Bob Dole (1923)
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
36,113 days ago
(98 years, 343 days)