Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...property to which the University has fallen heir consists of he income from several corporations controlled by Mr. Ward. The University is now the virtual owner of the Ideal Cocoa and Chocolate Corporation and the Lister and Gum Corporation...
...cause of her extraordinary perturbation, spread it out so that the light of the kerosene lamp fell upon its crumpled front page. The woman fell silent to watch his face which, as he read, sharpened, paled with incredulous horror. The paper was a copy of the Daily News, Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet. In huge black capitals across its top leered the headline QUAKE SHAKES CITY. Beneath was a picture of the famed skyline of lower Manhattan, evidently taken from an airplane...
...that anyone in Jericho could tell them more than the News announced was unlikely. They resigned themselves, waited. Next afternoon, earlier than usual, the man walked along the wagon-road to the village, bought his customary copy of the News, and, in addition, a copy of a rival gum-chewers' sheetlet known to the scornful as the Evening Pornographic, but to its readers simply as the Graphic. With trembling fingers, he scuffled the pages of these publications, looking for news about the devastated city...
...surprised that your paper deems it necessary to mention the engagement and marriage of Fatty Arbuckle. You should leave that for your Gum Chewers' Sheets that you refer to so often...
...tabloid form. The main plot remained, also the most tamed of the arias. The performance lasted 30 minutes instead of 180. As audiences were sucked in, pushed out of the enormous Hippodrome, it was seen that U. S. citizens who read tabloid newspapers, chew tabloid gum, can appreciate grand opera when its glories are compressed...