Word: chewers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They draw only regular army pay. Their weapons: forked sticks and canvas bags, goggles and a snakebite outfit. The goggles are for protection against the deadly ringhals, which not only bites but spits venom six feet with tobacco-chewer's accuracy. Two of the men have been hit in the eye by ringhals (bathing the eyes with milk is a sure cure); all have been bitten at one time or another. They take lightly the threatening antics of the puff adder, but have plenty of respect for the swift black mamba, most dreaded of Af rican snakes, whose bite...
...YOUR TICKETS NOW, FOLKS, FOR THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH : THE CARPET CHEWER CAGED, OR GARGANTUA WAS JUST A GIGOLO...
...quote from a letter written by myself from Jorgeney, France in April 1918: "There is a former classmate of U.C., a Lieut. Searls here. He is a common earth son of a miner back in California. At college he was a regular fellow, good scrapper, tobacco chewer and brilliant student. Didn't take him long to make good in the mining game; one of the best geologists in the West, and when the War broke out he was earning big money. He enlisted as a private in one of the first engineering regiments going over. Was made a sergeant...
Bascom Timmons, Texas-born, became a reporter at 16, managing editor at 20. Lean, long (6 ft. 3½ in.), rangy, an inveterate cigar-chewer, he went to Washington as a friend of John Nance Garner, a correspondent for Jesse Jones's Houston Chronicle and nine other papers in the South...
...Lyon's worst fears seemed confirmed when Mr. Towne, a lusty cigar chewer who does much of his cogitating in a Turkish bath, picked New Jerseyite Jimmy Lydon as his Tom Brown, then achieved the casting coup of the century by selecting Billy Halop, ringleader of the Dead End Kids, to play a Rugby blood. Though the Towne publicity department explained this choice as the result of a sensational Halop imitation of Basil Rathbone, alarmed Rugbyites peppered Hollywood with protests that gave the British censors some of the liveliest reading of the year...