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Word: gummed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...Harding gave candy and gum to all the children who came within reach, and seriously depleted the stock on the train. At Seymour, Ind., she said to a woman: " I like your parasol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Anabasis | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

Divorce. If you are a gum chewer, female, happily married to a drug clerk, this picture will reveal just what is going to happen when the family fortunes rise and your man suddenly accepts a position as general manager of the chemical factory. You will move up to a small edition of the Ritz in the Social Register section and he will promptly begin staying late at the club. You will catch him having lunch with a vapid vampire and soon he will request a divorce. Then you will go to your father who, fortunately enough, owns the chemical works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 2, 1923 | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

Daughters of the Rich. For those who enjoy reading the New York Daily News or the Chicago Tribune, for those who chew gum, for those who say " Yeh, dearie," to their " goil frien's," this play was made. There is even a milk bath scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

...Germany a new method has been developed of sending kisses by mail. A mixture of honey, gum arabic and cochineal is smeared on the lips and their impression left on the letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 14, 1923 | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

...Leonard, champion boxer turned matinee idol, in the Winter Garden. It is not only the physique which he so delights in displaying, not alone the slapstick ingenuities of his scenes. It is the curious quality of personal magnetism shooting across the footlights into the hearts of every fluttering little gum-chewer in the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

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