Word: chewers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pound for the more delicate, harder-to-cultivate peppermint. This year, all of his spearmint will go to William Wrigley Jr. Co. to flavor chewing gum. The peppermint will go to Wrigley, Beech-Nut and other gum makers. Naturally, Gehring is a faithful gum-chewer...
...Then Dunkirk had come and Britain stood alone against totalitarian might and night. The cigar chewer had said: ". . . We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry...
...handful of men <& boys had gone up with wings and, though outnumbered, was fighting the Luftwaffe to a standstill. Was not that aerial battle the Marathon of World War II? "Never. . ." the cigar-chewer had said, "was so much owed by so many...
...Then, in the deepening darkness, the battle of the dinosaurs began-Germany leaped at the throat of Russia. The cigar chewer had never been a friend of totalitarianism in any form. Now he spoke to the world over the air: "Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man or state who marches with Hitler...
...time off, Tracy plays tennis with his son Johnny, clacks with his boyhood crony, Pat O'Brien, talks with Victor Fleming about horses and about the war career of their close friend Clark Gable. A nonstop gum chewer and candy nibbler who describes himself as "a box of chocolates broadened out into a character actor," Tracy has recently lost weight (8 Ib.) because war has drastically curtailed his formal supply of sweets...