Word: chewed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dole," "cajole," "condole," etc., carefully explaining that the first meant the head; the second, to praise in highest terms; the third, to give in small quantities; the fourth, to impose on by flattery or delusive promises; the fifth, to express sympathy, etc. The Graphic limerick rhymed with "stew" and "chew"; the Home News offered "barbecue" which, they said, is "an animal, roasted whole"; "phew,"?"an expression of disgust or surprise," they made clear; "eschew," which means to "avoid" or "shun," the editors of the Home News told the public so that there would be no mistake about it. Certain...
...make choice of their words, their phrases. Startled, therefore, was I to find in one and the same category these: 'Trash readers, comic-strip fanatics, crossword puzzlers, gum-chewers. ..." ("The Press," TIME, Dec. 29). I do not read trash. Comic-strips to me are senseless. I do not chew gum. But of crosswords-I do spend considerable time fitting in the interlocking words on occasion. Others, I think, may feel as I do about your classification. Crossword puzzles and indulgence therein have met no end of favor in a variety of circles. They are worthy of better bedfellows than...
...steep and high at the corners, a band of hunched-over bicycle riders ground their pedals up and down incessantly, circling lap after lap, mile after mile without leaving the ellipse. It was an international six-day race, for Distance against Time, for Money against Monotony. Tex Rickard, promoter, chewed cigars, watched the customers come and go, talked with his henchmen, went home and slept, came back again to chew, watch, talk...
Gold serves very well as a medium of international understanding. Providing he has a plentiful supply of it the American traveller can journey from Oshkosh to Shanghai without once using anything but sound English oaths and a simple sign language. To hear the dusky Malays chew American gum and chatter the same English patois that could be heard at home would take not a little of the mystery and romance out of travel. And if predictions proved correct so that through a common tongue all nations of the world arrived at mutual understanding and peace the entire company of admirals...
...government of the United States is going to keep foot-free of embarrassing international entanglements, it must look to its motion pictures. Although natives may continue calmly to chew their gum while the man from the Eastern college goes west and beats up fifteen "bad men," foreign countries are growing weary of being misrepresented. Already preliminary protests have arrived...