Word: gum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blakeslee, director of the Carnegie Institution's station for experimental evolution on Long Island, produced 45 tablets of mannose, a sugar which is extracted from manna, a mildly cathartic gum secreted by certain Oriental trees. Mannose is notable for the wide variety of taste reactions which it causes. Dr. Blakeslee gave one tablet to each of the 45 members of the American Philosophical Society assembled before him. At a signal, all the savants raised their hands in unison, put the tablets in their mouths. Eighteen reported a sweet taste. Others said it was bitter, some said it was both...
Died. Frederick William MacMonnies, 73, sculptor; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A boyhood playmate of Artist Charles Dana Gibson who cut silhouets while he modeled in chewing gum, Sculptor MacMonnies made his biggest news in 1932 when his Civic Virtue was condemned by New York feminists because a male figure had his foot on a female figure's neck...
...their fifth U. S. tour the Wiener Sängerknaben still eat heartily, still complain that they are not allowed chewing gum. They range from 8 to 13. After the Ripon concert they were to go to New Castle, Pa. thence to Hamilton...
That, at Lafayette, Ind. last week, was the crucial moment of the most exciting game of the liveliest week in the country's major intercollegiate winter sport. On the sidelines, Purdue's Coach Ward ("Piggy") Lambert, who puts a stick of chewing gum into his mouth whenever he is perturbed about his team, gnawed a wad the size of a golf ball. In their seats around the court, 5,500 wildly excited spectators watched the players go to their positions for the tip off. In the next few seconds, things happened almost too quickly for the crowd...
...ruins the business of the Franz & Elsa Strauss Waltz Palace. In the U. S. consulate, Elsa (Gladys Swarthout), who has gone there to complain about her rival's tactics, meets Buzzy, mistakes him for the consul. Their romance begins when, he inducts her into the technique of chewing gum; nearly smashes when, in the picture's funniest sequence, she telephones the real consul to tell him she has swallowed her gum-a call which is intercepted, with much double entendre, by the consul's wife. After learning Buzzy's real identity, Elsa parts from him only...