Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Costly lawyers argued before the Supreme Court of the U. S. last week over homonymic trademarks. The Beech-Nut Packing Co. (BeechNut provisions, chewing-gum, candies) wanted P. Lorillard Co. (tobaccos) to cease labeling one of its cigaret and tobacco brands Beechnut. Lorillard Co. asserted that Beechnut was the name of a chewing tobacco made by a now dissolved Kentucky firm they once owned; that Beech-Nut Packing was not making tobacco products and was not injured by the similarity of trademarks. Beech-Nut complained that some day they might want to manufacture cigarets and other tobacco products; then there...
...money is put in a school fund. Fines for talking in class, gum-chewing, untidiness swell the total but violated grammar is chief source of revenue. Like any system, there is a defect. Thrifty pupils come to regard bad grammar as a luxury. Said a seven-year-old economist: "Sure, I use bad grammar, but I wait till I'm out in the street, see?" Said a self-indulgent eight-year-old, displaying a dime: "Momma give me two ain'ts for my birthday...
...intelligentsia . . . cannot be pleased with the "Gum-chewers standard" which you set in printing the gutter-like statements of Mr. Zweiger. Such a letter is not news, it is not literature, it is not even rational...
...fixing in private business. Of course public utilities must be regulated, but a theatre is a private enterprise, just as much as is a grocery store. . . . Had this decision gone the other way we would soon have the price of a haircut and the price of a stick of gum and the price of a newspaper fixed by legislation...
Subsequent examination developed that a pugilist is no stronger than his bridgework. Sharkey's right fist had torn loose one of McTigue's substitute molars. This tooth, driven through the upper gum, had met a large artery; caused a hemorrhage; lost the battle for its owner...