Word: gum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Youthful Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., able, active scion of an able, active line, whilom Hearstling, who in 1923 branched out from running the national news service that bears his name to endeavoring to establish a chain of newspapers in the U. S. (beginning with two gum-chewers' sheetlets in California [TIME, Aug. 20, 1923]), last week made a loud announcement...
...pursuant description made it clear that the new paper, the name of which was not vouchsafed, would be much like its Vanderbiltian predecessors. These, in their day, were modeled after the famed gum-chewers' sheetlets* of Manhattan. Compactly laid out, swathed in photographs, crowded with headlines, cluttered with "features", tabloid newspapers compress the national and international news the day with the local and incidental, expanding the latter into longer stories whenever it possesses sufficiently sensational details. The Vanderbilt papers, however, do not exploit crime am scandal as do their Manhattan prototypes. Their two most visible bents arc educational (stories...
FraulËin, with minds as sticky as chewing gum, giggled and gasped and choked and exclaimed aloud in horror...
Trash readers, comic-strip fanatics, crossword puzzlers, gum-chewers are satisfied by the noises which may be transmitted to them over the ether. But even in their case, and though they delight in listening in on Presidential speeches, football games, ball games, jazzy funnymen, first aid lectures, bed-time stories and advice to mothers, their interest is thus aroused in their newspapers. They delight in reading what they have heard. Many of Mr. Rose's friends told him that radio has made them read the newspaper accounts more eagerly. More critically...
...newspapers, however, spoke of another cause. While the Times, World, and even the gum-chewers' Mirror dwelt only upon the diluted condition of Dr. Grant's blood, the Herald-Tribune joined with the gum-chewers' Daily News in suggesting that the breakdown was due in some part to the strain occasioned by Dr. Grant's efforts to break himself of an attachment for one Nelly Kelly, unfortunate female whom Dr. Grant had befriended, employed as housemaid, then loved. Both the Herald-Tribune and the News, each in its own manner, de voted several columns to accounts of this affair...