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Monday, August 29, 1927

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The Headlines

SACCO AND VANZETTI FOLLOWED BY 7,000 IN BOSTON FUNERAL; Nearly 200,000 Watch Paraders -- Mounted Police Charge the Crowd at the Cemetery. MARCHERS MAKE THREATS American Flag Is Torn to Shreds During Demonstration in London. SACCO AND VANZETTI FOLLOWED BY 7,000

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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

36,076 days ago

(98 years, 306 days)