Word: gum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yeah," said Mr. Keltner, shifting his gum. "I'm broke...
...Before her marriage to Croesusrich young Whitney in 1930, Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus was well known in the hunt country around Philadelphia. After acquiring the 2,200-acre, million-dollar "Llangollen" estate near Upperville, Va., Liz Whitney became the most glamorous horsewoman in the U. S. Her drawing-room gum-chewing, social-worker hairdo, haphazard clothes were aped by many lesser socialites. Her riding technique became the very pattern for aspiring horsewomen. Her money-fed horses were the envy of the show-ring. Two years ago at the National she rode her Grey Knight to three blue ribbons...
...ways to have any truck with newfangled sandbags and gum-papered windows, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, 91, eldest living daughter of Queen Victoria, stuck to her 98-room Kensington Palace apartment in air-vulnerable London. Once known as the "Royal Rebel" for marrying against her mother's wishes, for smoking cheap gaspers, for many another unregal trick, she condescended to such precautions as dark blue window-blinds, an underground tunnel near the kitchen...
...Snuff cans and adorned with a tarnished silver snuffbox. Last July he told a snuff-dippers' convention: "Every old-line politician lined up against me. But I had one advantage . . . I was a snuff dipper. As a boy it was sometimes my duty to go cut a black gum toothbrush for my Grandmother, who was a snuff dipper. Practically all the elderly Christian mothers and grandmothers of that community (Hickory Grove, Texas) were snuff dippers. These modern women with one baby and a cigaret could learn a lot from these pioneer women. Snuff dippers don't talk much...
...Adventures hour Lee and Dannay write a $350 mystery a week. Ellery, represented as a William Powell-style detective by a radiogenic actor named Hugh Marlowe, with a photogenic actress named Marion Shockley as his secretary, Nikki, leads the way through such adventures as those of the Gum-Chewing Millionaire, Napoleon's Razor, George Spelvin's Murderer, The Three...