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Thursday, October 27, 1927
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The Headlines
CAROL PICTURES HIS FOES IN FEAR; CONFIRMS APPEALS; Gives Out Text of His Letters Seized in Rumania and Asks Free Discussion. WOULD NOT DISTURB NATION Prince Says That His Previous Declarations Never Reached the Public at Home. BUCHAREST UNDER CENSOR Situation There Is Believed to Be Serious -- Averescu Attacks Bratianu as "Usurper." CAROL PICTURES HIS FOES IN FEAR
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
36,016 days ago
(98 years, 246 days)