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Saturday, August 27, 1927
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The Headlines
CHERBOURG RIOTERS ATTACK CONSULATE; Driven Back by Police, Firemen and Soldiers, Reds Return and Stone Defenders. FIRST HELD SACCO MEETING Crowds Were Still Resisting the Authorities at Midnight, but Were Held in Check.
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
36,077 days ago
(98 years, 307 days)