Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consulting with the Bureau of Aeronautics, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, the Bureau of Navigation and the Office of Naval Operations, and after mature consideration, issued an order. The order permits ? for the first time since 1911, when it was for bidden ? the sale of chewing gum to sailors in the stores aboard ship...
...Cornelius IV was not press-shy. He got himself a job on the New York Herald Tribune as reporter. From there he went to the New York Times, and from there to Washington to free lance, until Publisher Hearst, whose gum-chewing public dotes on names like Vanderbilt, gobbled him up to write signed articles. There is evidence that the youth received lasting inspiration at the Hearstian knee, for his journalistic activities ever since have been in the gum-chewing field...
...week following Raquel Meller's $27.50 debut, a Manhattan gum- chewers' sheetlet, the Mirror, was out with the news that she was a "flop."* Speculators were described as anguished because they could not unload admissions to her expensive performances ($11 after the opening). Large pictures were displayed of Meller and Irene Bordoni side by side. Bordoni is the wife of E. Ray Goetz, Meller's importer. Was Bordoni vexed, asked the sheetlet, because her husband had presented, so sensationally, this Spanish onion...
...York Daily Mirror, with characteristic emphasis, spoke for the gum-chewers. At the top of its editorial page two pictures were printed, one of Sinclair Lewis with a monocle in his eye, and one (on the left) of a large hairy baboon with enormous ears, a wise, sad, underslung mouth, a flat nose. The baboon also wore a monocle...
...basic substance of chewing gum, obtained from the bully tree and the sapodilla...