Word: gobbet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acts, many British. Juggler Rich Hayes (British) drew royal smiles. Blackfaces Alexander & Mose (British) caused Lady May Cambridge to titter. Xylophonist Teddie Brown (U. S.) realized his ambition of some years to play at a "command performance" and thus swell his British gate. But with a gobbet of chewing gum, Broadway's robustious Al Trahan stopped the show, rocked the Palladium with mighty mirth and convulsed the Royal Party...
...Buffalo, dinner was announced in the home of Jack Farrell, 5. Jack Farrell was chewing gum. Before he took his seat at the table he put his masticated gobbet not behind his ear, as is a popular fashion, but in his ear. Surgeons had to cut his ear apart...