Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said he: "Americans as a whole have the most friendly feeling toward us, sympathize with our aspirations for independence, recognize fully the obligation contained in the preamble to the Jones law and are disposed to favor more, instead of less, self-government for us." Recently in the U. S. gum-chewers were horrified upon opening their favorite pink-sheeted tabloid to see the photograph of a Filipino native with a four-inch tail...
Last fortnight Times readers were shocked. A complete reversal of policy was implicit in a small paragraph, conspicuously "boxed" (ruled off), which began appearing daily, signed-Oh, odor of the Follies, chewing-gum and the strident New York World!-by Funnyman Will Rogers, the prairie pantaloon, purveyor of bathos to Demos...
...well describes this people who shade in different parts of the Empire from white through reddish-brown to ebony, and from Christianity to Mohammedanism. To the curious traveler's eye, Abyssinia presents a rural scene, picturesquely set off by civic stenches. Camels jog up to French Somaliland with gum and ostrich feathers which are bartered there for cheap Occidental jewelry and clothing or for rock salt, lumps of which pass current as money in the interior, as do cartridges. The Empress and a few nobles enjoy the exotic luxury of corrugated iron roofs upon their "palaces." The Prince Regent...
...teams settle into the race down the stretch, the attendance appears as considerable as ever, and the crowds of rabid U. S. gentry who mill through the turnstiles at the parks to watch the play, blaspheme the umpire, masticate peanuts, popcorn and chewing gum, are as diligent and enthusiastic as in the summers of yesteryear...
...polish. See how he bows right and left, this gangling fellow, as lean as a lariat, in the old suit and the cracked shoes. His under lip protrudes like the point of a vulgar joke. His jaws move perpetually, up and down, chewing insult, chewing fancy, chewing humor, chewing gum. It is William Penn Adair Rogers, the diplomatist...