Word: chewed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican liquor plank, the Prohibition Party turned enthusiastically toward the Idaho Republican as its Presidential nominee. Miss Ethel Hubler of California formally nominated Senator Borah as "a radical Dry at all times . . . a man who is personally something of an agnostic, who does not smoke, nor drink, nor chew, nor play cards, a man whose election would sound the death-knell of the liquor traffic." Delegate Richard Cannon of California, son of Bishop James Cannon Jr., seconded the Borah nomination. The organ played "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and the delegates paraded up and down the aisles...
...back this airy promise with something solid for jobless men to chew on, Don Carlos ordered a half-million free meals served daily by the Government to Chile's unemployed. State pawnshops obeyed an order to return gratis sewing machines and all tools pawned by the "certified unemployed." Joyous crowds soon flocked around every pawnshop, roared "Viva Davila...
...interests are in mechanics, electricity, photography. He repairs his three Packards and three Duesenbergs by himself, likewise tinkers his radios. Wrigley's P. Ks. were named for him and not because of the slogan: "Packed tight; Kept right." He managed to sell Australians gum by changing the name to "chewing sweets for "gum" was connected with "glue." He has not yet solved the problem of making Orientals chew gum instead of betel nut. To do so would mean 200,000,000 new customers already chew-conscious...
...Hence his nickname, coined to his initials. Idolized by employes, he once issued an order to the entire payroll of 100,000 saying that any one who wanted to see him had only to make himself known at his office. Known as a "cinder railroader" he nevertheless does not chew, smoke or swear. "You can run a railroad without cussing," said...
...Yale Polo Team, Lawrence Alexander ("Chew") Baldwin, James Paul ("Jimmy") Mills, Joseph Cornelius ("Cokie") Rathborne: the intercollegiate indoor polo championship; by beating Harvard 10 to 7 in the final round, at Manhattan...