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Wednesday, August 17, 1927
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The Headlines
COSGRAVE IN DAIL WINS BY ONE VOTE; No Confidence Motion Put by Johnson Is Lost by Speaker's Deciding Ballot. HOUSE ADJOURNS TO OCT. 11 Coalition Agreement May Be Made in Interim--Labor Stands by Treaty and Constitution. COSGRAVE IN DAIL WINS BY ONE VOTE
Read in The New York Times →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
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
36,087 days ago
(98 years, 317 days)