Word: chews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business. Sometimes he uses industrial cinemas donated by prominent manufacturing concerns. Sometimes he has his corps of assistants perform a little drama on the stage intended to show the right and wrong way to do business. Classic Marchand example of commercial wrongheadedness is the case of Wrigley's chewing-gum when first introduced into England. Britons would not chew until the word gum?which signified nothing but raw rubber?was changed to "sweet...
...assumes a peculiar, almost clerical (but not monotonous) drone. Then he is meek, likes to remind his listeners that his mother was a Quaker. His own faith is the Episcopalian. He drives out of Washington for Sunday services in country churches. He smokes three cigars a day. does not chew, swears privately. His fraternal affiliations: Masons (32nd degree. Knights Templar. Shriner). Rotary. Odd Fellows. (Continued Outside Congress...
...seidel handle, coins, matches, all with no apparent harm. Once he drank sulphuric acid, another time lysol. He is allowed no clothes with buttons. Last week he discovered a new source of false food, his fellow inmates. He would pounce upon an unwary victim, trip him up and, snarling, chew off every button, every fastening. Replete, he would release the poor fellow and would run, whimpering woe, to harassed Dr. Fuchs...
...does not smoke or chew. When angered, he swears vigorously. His flashy temper quickly subsides. Once he taught Sunday school in Algona. A Congregationalist, he used to attend the same church as President Coolidge until the crowds drove him away...
...moved by potent Radioman De Forest's warning, mend their ways. A father also of sound cinema, Inventor De Forest felt privileged to add : "In both studio recording and theatre reproducing a most deplorable result of engineering indigestion exists. The profession has bitten off more than it can chew, and the resultant bellyache must be endured by the theatre-going public...