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Saturday, December 10, 1927

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The Headlines

CONFESSIONS SOUGHT IN LILLIENDAHL CASE TO GET A NEW TRIAL; Report of Admissions by Two Negroes Here Is Believed the Basis of Defense Move. RUMOR DENIED IN BROOKLYN Ten-Year Sentence and Refusal of Bail to Widow and Beach Are Looked For Today. APPEAL FOR THEM READY Juror Says It Was Felt That There Had Been Quarrel at Crime Scene -- Both Prisoners Are Cheerful. CONFESSION SOUGHT IN LILLIENDAHL CASE

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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

35,973 days ago

(98 years, 203 days)