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Tuesday, November 29, 1927

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The Headlines

WETS LAUNCH DRIVE FOR A REFERENDUM ON DRY LAWS IN 1928; Captain Stayton Hopes to Raise $3,000,000 Fund to Finance the Campaign. WILL SEEK PARTY PLEDGES Republican Wets Are Informed at Dinner Here of Plans for Coming Elections. LIBERAL SWING REPORTED Referendum Is Urged to Afford an Avenue to Allow This to Make Itself Felt. WETS LAUNCH DRIVE FOR A REFERENDUM

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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

35,983 days ago

(98 years, 213 days)