Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correspondent of the tabloid Daily News: "When they left the Cathedral, the moving picture men wanted Walker to feed the pigeons, since pigeons show up so well in a film, and the Mayor obliged, although pigeon feeding wasn't his home specialty." Slyly wrote the editors, fearing that gum-chewers might miss the delicate wit of this tidbit: "Our mischievous correspondent's inference seems too obvious for pointing." Over their rude insinuation against the Mayor of the largest U. S. city, they put an almost libelous tag: "THERE MAY BE A CACKLE IN THIS...
...craving for power?" Mr. Flint repeated: "No! It is pure, green greed. . . . Greed, and greed alone, is the reason for a man's wanting to swell his wad million after million!" Mr. Flint, who as the "Father of Trusts"- made his money in shipping, electric lighting, rubber, chewing gum, munitions, etc., was asked the secret of moneymaking. Said he: "Well, God has favored some men highly and has given them gifts which they use to make money." He cited the case of a man employed by him whose salary had jumped from...
Mechanical geniuses congratulated themselves that they and their kind have now provided society with coin-in-the-slot dispensaries of nuts chewing gum candy weighing stamps matches cigarets hair combs soap perfume shoe shines music electric shocks crude cinema horoscopes telephoning cooked food photographs drinking cups handkerchiefs napkins comfort subway rides soft drinks cosmetics name plates Other mechanical geniuses wondered if fortunes might not be made by furnishing society with coin-in-the-slot dispensaries...
...after the Sacco-Vanzetti execution the Evening Graphic, gum-chewers' sheetlet published in Manhattan by Bernarr Macfadden, blazed on the newsstands with a huge headline...
...take with him some prancing coach horses, a mace, a port complexion and some coldstream guards. The mayor of Stamboul would have to produce a hookah out of his silk bloomers. By what tokens should the mayor of New York be known abroad? Tiaras, tabloids, and ticker tape? Chewing gum, checked suits, charged water...