Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilson's cabinet had later entered the employ of Oilmen Sinclair and Doheny. It was the rankest sort of Senatorial innuendo and included the smirking suggestion that Inquisitor Walsh had been an intimate of Doheny's. Stalwart 38-year-old Senator Tydings of Maryland chewed hard on his chewing gum until Senator Robinson sat down. Then he repeated the Harrison performance, cramming Indiana's "birds of a feather," including murderous Dragon D. C. Stephenson of the Indiana Klan, down Senator Robinson's throat...
...leaped up, livid. Senator Robinsop, himself only 47 years old and no weakling, strode to meet him. Senator Fess, Ohio's little fussbudget, rushed between the near-combatants waving a copy of the Senate rules. Senator Robinson had to retract his epithets. Senator Tydings sat down and chewed his gum again, glaring, angry...
...York Daily Mirror and the Boston Advertiser. William Randolph Hearst, who had never before sold any profitable publication, was the seller. The price was considered too "personal" to be made public. People wondered how Mr. Moore intended to divide his time between solving Peruvian diplomacy and pleasing U. S. gum-chewers...
...first few days of the Moore regime. Photographs of girls with their legs crossed and dresses barely covering the hips continued to appear on the front pages; Elinor Glyn kept on writing about "It;" Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary ran along in pictorial form so that no gum-chewer could miss the point. In the Mirror were photographs of a Negro and a white baby, "brought together by fate" at the Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. The Negro infant got the caption...
...town (TIME, Sept. 28, 1925), reopened the Hall-Mills case, finally perished in the Old Glory flight. Founded three and a half years ago, the Mirror was Mr. Hearst's reply to the challenge of the Daily News (Chicago Tribune-owned tabloid) for supremacy among the gum-chewers. Although the Mirror has today a circulation of 450,000 it lags far behind the Daily News, which has 1,225,000. The younger pornoGraphic of Bernarr Macfadden...