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Sunday, April 28, 1929
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The Headlines
NEW HOUSE CLASH IN DRY KILLING NEAR; LaGuardia Says Inquiry Shows Liquor Truck Driver May Have Been Innocent. CALLS APPLAUSE "BRUTAL" Bootleg Cars Equipped With Smoke Screens Multiply in Washington. Says He Was Bus Driver. Calls "Outbreak Un-Christian." NEW HOUSE CLASH IN DRY KILLING NEAR First Jones Law Sentence There.
Read in The New York Times →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
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
35,467 days ago
(97 years, 62 days)