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Monday, February 11, 1929

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The Headlines

COACHES ARE DYNAMITED; Executive is Calm as He Alights-Wife and Baby Uninjured. MANY HELD AS SUSPECTS Rounded Up by Troops, Who Set Out in Pursuit With Orders to Shoot Perpetrators. PRESIDENT CONTINUES TRIP Attempt on Life Made Soon After Toral Death--Coolidge Congratulates Portes Gil.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Singin' in the Rain

Nacio Herb Brown

The must-have

Duncan Yo-Yo

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush

Flapper

bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy

Gangster

big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy

Catchphrases of 1929

  • Wall Street Lays an Egg

Tech Check

Car Radio, Sunglasses (Mass Produced) & Coaxial Cable.

Cost of Living (1920)

Loaf of Bread

$0.11

Gallon of Gas

$0.30

Average Home

$6,296

New Car

$575

Time Elapsed

35,543 days ago

(97 years, 138 days)