Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ovvned by Chicago's William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum tycoon. Other famed island-owners: Detroit's Motorman Howard Earle Coffin (Sapelo, Ga.), Boston's Lawyer Albert Cameron Burrage (Bumkin, in Boston Harbor), Maine's onetime Governor Percival Proctor Baxter (Macworth, Casco Bay), Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Will Hays, Arthur Brisbane (Ona. Fla.), Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke (Jahncke's Bayou, St. John...
...tabloid newspaper, a new color scheme, appeared in the hands of Detroit newsboys last fortnight. It was called the Detroit Daily Illustrated (7 p. m. to 9 a. m. edition). The color scheme: white, then green, then pink. Its proprietor is Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of two other gum-chewers' sheetlets, New York's Graphic, Philadelphia's Daily News. This is the second new Macfadden publication venture within the last month. His other one: New York Investment News (TIME. April...
...readers of that gum-chewers' sheetlet, the New York Graphic, are gum-chewers. Some of them snuggle the pink-faced tabloid into Park Avenue homes, there to read it in polite seclusion. They have reason: the Graphic's gossip-purveying, scandal-scooping, staccato-styled Monday column, "Your Broadway and Mine...
...Sobol as dramatic editor and critic, effective at once. Mr. Sobol will also conduct the column known as 'Your Broadway and Mine.' " Discouraged, they turned to the Times, wherein appeared an advertisement announcing that starting Monday, June 10, Walter Winchell will conduct a column for a rival gum-chewers' sheetlet-the New York Daily Mirror. Many a Winchell reader does not believe all that he reads. Sometimes the Winchell prophecies are right; sometimes they are wrong. But Winchell worshippers have enlarged their vocabularies, learned many a word they never had heard before. Some Winchell Words are: "dotter...
...from Dora that these subhuman salesmen sprung. For Dora's decree made many a public house, cafe and tobacconist close during certain afternoon hours and also close early at night. Ingenious, tradesmen put slot machines on their doors. Thus, while legally closed, they continued to dispense candy, chewing gum, cigarets, etc. Meanwhile the slot machines, at first an emergency measure, gained so strong a hold upon the British favor that their vogue is considered certain to continue even after Dora shall have been rendered extinct by the same unfeeling government that created her. Indeed, the robots of the present...