Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Robert LeGrand Johnstone, 56, President, Chicle Products Company (chewing gum); in Ottawa, suddenly, of heart failure...
...Think of that! . . You can ride around trice on my twicycle . . I mean twice on my tricycle. . Well, then, I'll let you come to my circus next Saturday free, and its going to be ten pins for everybody else. . . I'll give you half this piece of chewing gum. . . And two of these keys and this, whistle and I'll let you whittle with my knife some day. . . No, you can't have any of my cigarette pictures...
...brides put their first biscuits together we sure could build some fine roads." "America's chewing gum bill in the past year amounted to over $9,000,000, exclusive of the cost of gasoline necessary to remove it from trousers." "A Dumb Dora from South Hoboken wants to know if a man who plays the piano by ear is an acrobat."-ED. "No Predicament...
Young like the sheetlets that he has built, Philip A. Payne is a managing editor at 32. Soon after the War, by working on Mr. Hearst's Chicago Herald-Examiner and New York American, he found what "news" the gum-chewers of his country will swallow. Then, the New York Daily News, first of the tabloids, was started by the two rich, hard-boiled publishers of the Chicago Tribune, Joseph Medill Patterson, Robert R. McCormick. Mr. Payne, an earnest, bespectacled Puck, was invited to become an assistant editor. He rose to fame as the Daily News leaped upward...
...Because gum-chewers smack their lips loudly over this kind of thing, literate people are confronted by prodigious bales of newsprint upon the sexual and mental Aberrations of some commonplace people. In the office of the Daily Mirror, an earnest, bespectacled Puck dreams of other crusades...