Word: gum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...similar endless flocks to the local production. The gorgeousness of the story has not been sufficiently reduced to a swiftly rising narrative. Through the opening reels, the characters are confused. Too many dukes and knights in armor and around the chess board are inclined to irritate your U. S. gum-chewer...
...example, the New York Evening Graphic. Manhattan gum chewers' sheetlet, property ? of Bernarr Macfadden, planned a Crossword Puzzle Contest. Others copied it and one even went to the extent of printing the probable answers of the Graphic's puzzles (TIME, Feb. 2). But the crossword puzzle contest wore out; and the Graphic promptly announced a new contest, or series of contests?$150 a day in prizes for the last line of incomplete limericks to be published...
...Wrigley has just been elected president of the William Wrigley Jr. Co., the $90,000,000 Chewing Gum corporation...
Millionaire Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of twelve magazines? and of the New York Evening Graphic, gum-chewers' supreme-de-fruit, watches as a zoo-man watches his charges that hydra-headed amphibian, the Public. He knows the meat upon which this beast and upon which he, Macfadden, may grow great together. Hence, when he saw people everywhere, in lowly hovels, in the great homes which he himself frequents, racking their brains over small squares of paper charted in black and white squares which gaped to be filled in, horizontally and vertically, with words of Egyptian, European and native derivation...
When the stockholders of great companies meet, their action is often decided for them in advance. Thus it was announced, last week, that William Wrigley Jr., President of the $35,000,000 Wrigley chewing-gum corporation, would resign at the next stockholders' meeting; that his son Philip K. Wrigley. 29, would take his place. William Wrigley Jr., who will be named Chairman of the Board of Directors, will occupy his leisure with the financial management of his two baseball clubs-the Chicago Cubs, the Los Angeles Angels. Young Mr. P. K. Wrigley has been working for his father...