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...Germany. You can't go around telling everybody that John Taber represents some people sitting around a cracker barrel in Oneida, N. Y., and perhaps not even them, and that he doesn't speak for everyone in America. There were too many irresponsible fools in Europe just serving to gum up the works. They appeared in print all over the place and they added nothing but confusion and bad feeling to the situation. And I don't mean criticism by the Moscow New Times, I mean by reasonable, intelligent papers like Combat and Le Monde in Paris...
...Throckmorton. The gum-chewing Daily News was fascinated with an ermined customer who puffed a fat cigar while she sipped a drink. Its picture of her was hastily identified as "A Mrs. Throckmorton (she's not in the Blue Book, by the way)." A day later it told more about her: she was not just any old Mrs. Throckmorton, but the Mrs. Cleon Throckmorton of Cape Cod and the nightclubs, who was "reliably reported to carry $4,000 in her handbag at all times-plus a gat in good working order. She . . . once appeared in a nightclub...
Robert Montgomery used his eyes for a camera in "Lady in the Lake," and started a new screen fad. In his latest work, he shifts emphasis to his mouth. The chance of a new craze developing is doubtful; but there are enough close-ups of gum-chewing, envelope-licking and other oral shennanigans to fascinate any dentist. The average fan may not be as overwhelmed, but by close observation he may discover whether Montgomery has his tongue in his cheek. The quality of his performance makes it seem likely...
...London Daily Express office during the war, Editor Arthur Christiansen used to notice a lackadaisical G.I. in a typical G.I. pose-leaning against the wall of the sub-editors' room and blankly chewing gum. One day Christiansen struck up a conversation with the leaner, found that he was soaking up the newspaper atmosphere for future use. His name: Sergeant Richard Vesey...
Just before we get to Dartmouth, the photog suggests we add more realism, so we go to a hamburger stand, and order three hamburgers, with thick slices of onion. The waitress does not like us. To make it seem that we are New York slickers, we chew gum when we pull into Hanover, and also to seem like polite Joes who don't like to have people breathing our enjoy breath...