Word: chewed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chew and I spit...
...smoking, in the current issue of Scribner's, Mr. Furnas offers several anti-smoking aids for what they are worth. Samples: 1) wash out the mouth with a weak solution of silver nitrate which "makes a smoke taste as if it had been cured in sour milk"; 2) chew candied ginger, gentian, or camomile; 3) to occupy the hands smoke a prop cigaret...
...Cabinet decided that once the Japanese Army takes Hankow, the present Chinese capital, no further invasion of China will be pressed. Since the beginning of the war observers have agreed that the most vital question was how big a piece of China the Japanese would decide to try to chew. Thus far they have shown every sign of recklessly trying to gorge themselves to eventual suffocation...
Kentucky-born Leane Zugsmith's Summer Soldier is about Harlan County. She calls it Chew County. Seven slightly screwy liberals join a committee to investigate conditions in Chew. Five of them, riding down in a stuffy train, get a wire from their chairman, Hankemer, who> has gone ahead: Do not get off at Chew get off at Zara...
...carry out the committee's two leaders, take them to a dark swamp, thrash them unconscious. Then they turn lights and police on their victims. "I swear!" they say. "They have been beating each other up. . . . Goddamn. They want to get us into trouble." The liberals leave Chew still bloody and uninvestigated...