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Wednesday, July 27, 1927
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The Headlines
GIBSON ASKS WORD OF BRITISH RETURN; Requests Information on When Bridgeman and Cecil May Be Expected Back. MAY LEAVE LONDON TODAY Expected to Carry New Terms in an Effort to End the Conference Deadlock. GIBSON ASKS WORD OF BRITISH RETURN
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
- Giosuè Carducci (1835)
- Alexandre Dumas fils (1824)
- Murad IV (1612)
- Hans Fischer (1881)
- Vladimir Korolenko (1853)
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
36,108 days ago
(98 years, 338 days)