Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duty assigned to a young child by state law. The Judge himself, John T. Raulston of Winchester, Tenn., after opening the court and calling a special sitting of the grand jury to reindict Scopes so that there might be no mistake, sat back in his chair chewing gum, waving to friends among the spectators, occasionally calling for order when growls of prejudice greeted the cross-questioning to which Darrow and Malone were putting the venire...
Said the Daily News, Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet: "There is justice in the world. . . . How comforting that must be to Mary?only 350 years after being killed...
...Mail, is to resign after July 1 and become General Operations Manager. The directorate includes such men as Marshall Field III of Chicago, Stuyvesant Fish of Manhattan, William A. Rockefeller (grandson of the late brother of John Davison Rockefeller), P. K. Wrigley (son of the chewing-gum man). The great strength of the project lies in the fact that no stock is to be sold publicly: "the promoters regard the project as partly a business venture, partly a national development which will help place the U. S. in the very forefront of aviation and pave the way to a network...
...others were difficult to feed, but Chester can forage for himself. Chewing gum and erasers are his favorite delicacies. All the menagerie could live on fish-food, however, the Freshman menagerie owners insist...
...Papers of the Hearst and Chicago Tribune persuasion): "Hot stuff! Sensational! Lay it on thick; run it every day! Great headlines! Maybe it isn't the best way of reforming the world, but for the present it's the best way to sell lots of newspapers." ¶(Gum-chewers'sheetlets): "Meat! Meat for us! Get the pictures, pictures, pictures! But of course we can't keep Chapman on the front page very long. There'll be a dozen crimes as good tomorrow...