Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exclaimed the publishers of the Chicago Tribune and the Daily News (Manhattan). It was small wonder that the musings of J. M. Patterson and R. R. McCormick differed from the poet: they had not committed his indiscretions, nor had he made a fortune by collecting pennies from the gum-chewers of a great nation...
...Patterson and McCormick, having driven out all comers except Hearst and a small business daily from the morning newspaper field in Chicago, looked ahead for new fields to conquer. They chose Manhattan and there five years ago founded a little illustrated sheet, of scandalmongering propensities, the Daily News. The gum-chewers of Manhattan seized the News and gloated. Pennies by the carload rolled into the proprietors' pockets. And yet they felt the urge for "More! More...
...have taught the people of Chicago to stomach our ware. The gum-chewers of Manhattan have gobbled it up. It must be popular stuff. It's too bad we can't sell it to the whole country. But it would cost a terrible lot of money to start a newspaper in every city. Why not put our stuff into a magazine and sell it everywhere...
...wonders why Dr. Rosenbach did not leave his treasures, including the hair and the strange little box with the mass window in the hands of their original owners. In most of its manifestations, especially where it is a question of chewing gum wrappers and clear capons the mania of collection serves some slight purpose, but when if details an expenditure of over over a million dollars, and results mainly a fascinating juts of corpses, the game seems hardly worth the candle Phere are so many more interesting things that a really clever scender could do with the money...
Gold serves very well as a medium of international understanding. Providing he has a plentiful supply of it the American traveller can journey from Oshkosh to Shanghai without once using anything but sound English oaths and a simple sign language. To hear the dusky Malays chew American gum and chatter the same English patois that could be heard at home would take not a little of the mystery and romance out of travel. And if predictions proved correct so that through a common tongue all nations of the world arrived at mutual understanding and peace the entire company of admirals...