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Thursday, July 28, 1927

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The Headlines

ADVISERS ON SACCO CALL ON GOV. FULLER; FINAL ACTION NEAR; Defense Fears Negative Recommendations in View of Short Time Taken. VANZETTI IS VISITED AGAIN Governor, After Second Interview at Prison, Appears Worn -- To Hear Counsels' Pleas. DREYFUS MAY COME HERE Former Devil's Island Prisoner Joins French Committee to Appeal for Condemned Men. ADVISERS ON SACCO CALL ON GOV. FULLER

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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

36,107 days ago

(98 years, 337 days)