Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention of the New York Daily News, Manhattan gum-chewers sheetlet, which is ordinarily fixed upon sensational murder, scandal and theatrico-anatomical intelligence, was trained with beneficial effect upon Dr. Henry J. Schireson of Chicago, who gained much publicity by reducing Actress Fanny Brice's Hebraic nose to Celtic curvature two months ago at Atlantic City...
...Daily News caught and passed the New York Evening Journal about Aug. 1, 1923: Oct. 1 they stood: News, 633,578; Journal, 601,837. Both papers appeal to the city's gum-chewers. Charted lines of their respective rise and fall in the last six months are approximately complementary...
...some time his daily diary has been smuggled out of jail and published in one of the London papers- the kind of paper, which, if the English chewed gum, would be read by 500,000 gum-chewers. Some weeks ago an injunction put a stop to this performance...
Poet Beneét's chewing-gum and candy...
Stephen Benét has a large head, indefinite hair, wears huge glasses, carries an entire desk-full of papers, gum, candy, cigarettes and a book or two constantly about his person. His military ancestors, among them a Chief of Ordnance, have not given him precision of movement...