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Sunday, September 11, 1927

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The Headlines

WOOD SEES COOLIDGE STILL IN THE RACE; Indiana Representative Voices Opinion of Many That He Will Be Drafted. HOOVER IS HIS NEXT CHOICE Declares That Secretary Has Popular Appeal and Is of Required Calibre. URGES MERCHANT MARINE Trip Abroad Convinces Him That Fleet Needs Balancing In Intermediate Tonnage.

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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

36,062 days ago

(98 years, 292 days)