Word: chews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abhorred negligible vices. He did not smoke, enforced a non-smoking rule among his employes. They could chew if they wanted to. He cultivated, however, a taste for wine and a proficiency of tact worthy of one of the scrupulous courtiers of Louis IV. Once an employe who had been accused of excessive drinking came to him while he lunched and began passionately to repel the slander. Lawson listened with courtesy but without concentration to the man's stammered protestations. At their conclusion he directed the waiter to bring to the table a bottle of Imperial Toquay, and having filled...
Many have wondered in recent months whether the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, in absorbing Lackawanna Steel and Midvale Steel and Ordinance, "bit off more than it can chew." Earnings of the greater Bethlehem have not been impressive, and evidences of an extreme policy of economy have abounded. The most recent instance has been the retirement of three high-salaried Bethlehem executives-Archibald Johnson and H. S. Snyder, Vice Presidents, and W. E. Tobias, General Manager of Purchases. All three men have been with the company for years, and will be retained "in an advisory and consulting capacity." Several of them became...
Cuspidors. "The Company for years has supplied paper cuspidors and sawdust free to those who chew tobacco or want them, but about a year ago, in line with the Ford spirit of profits, the men were charged 1¢ per cuspidor...
This item related how a woman, Katherine Puree by name, had entered an Automat, procured a sandwich, eaten the first half of it with impunity. As she began to chew the second half, she felt something in her mouth that seemed to be moving, independent of the action of her teeth and tongue. She screamed, spat vehemently, alarming many nearby customers of the Horn & Hardart Co. When the object she ejected passed her lips it bit her, causing her lip to bleed. A curious insect -or reptile -about a quarter of an inch long, badly mangled by Miss Puree...
...tabloid form. The main plot remained, also the most tamed of the arias. The performance lasted 30 minutes instead of 180. As audiences were sucked in, pushed out of the enormous Hippodrome, it was seen that U. S. citizens who read tabloid newspapers, chew tabloid gum, can appreciate grand opera when its glories are compressed...