Word: chews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea of Tige trying to chew one of Buster's stockings was used by a manufacturer of hosiery to show how tough his product was. Other Busters were proud to wear these stockings because they felt that Brown was "a great...
This little lyric was the popular expression of a fad which made famous its founder, Horace Fletcher, some 20 years ago. John D. Rockefeller took it up and provided a prose version of its message: "Don't gobble your food. 'Fletcherize,' or chew very slowly while you eat." For a time wealthy mothers counted their children's jaw beats at the table while ragged micks in the streets threatened to "Fletcherize" their little enemies. Gradually, the fad died because people were too lazy or too busy with other things to give the required 45 strokes...
...effect of Dr. Hoick's words must be upon the few remaining Fletcherites. Unaccustomed to normal mastication, these fastidious trenchermen will swill too much and too abruptly and die off in short order. Not so John D. Rockefeller who, unmoved by fads and always conservative, will continue to chew his food soberly and slowly in a modified adaptation of Horace Fletcher's preposterous method...
...unorthodox foods can be made appetizing. Snake and chicken are much alike.* Like white meat of chicken too are frog legs. Horse meat is sweet, dog steaks flat. Rat and cat are little different from tame rabbit. Snails fried alive in butter have a quaint taste, are tough to chew. Human flesh is sweet. Toasted grasshoppers have a nutty flavor. Earthworms, washed clean and gently stewed, have a tangy tartness...
...They will not run on back pages; they will be real news. And in the last few weeks of the procession the country will be showered with about as much information on the ranking of the runners, their vocations, the age of their mothers, the kind of gum they chew, as it can well stand...