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Friday, July 12, 1929
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The Headlines
TROTSKY IS BARRED BY BRITISH CABINET; Tories Cheer Labor Minister's Announcement in Commons, but Speaker Blocks Debate. SOVIET NEGOTIATIONS NEAR Invitation to Russia to Parlay Is Expected to Go Through Norwegian Legation. Tradition of Asylum Stressed. TROTSKY IS BARRED BY BRITISH CABINET Trotsky Exiled to Constantinople.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Singin' in the Rain
Nacio Herb Brown
The must-have
Duncan Yo-Yo
You Share a Birthday With
- Pablo Neruda (1904)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817)
- Amedeo Modigliani (1884)
- Buckminster Fuller (1895)
- Claude Bernard (1813)
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
35,392 days ago
(96 years, 352 days)