Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newsstand nymphs gum-chewing...
...Times is famous for its "comprehensiveness"; The Tribune for its "features"-Briggs, Darling, Grantland Rice, Mark Sullivan, Don Marquis, "Young Boswell"; The Herald for its Munsianism; The American for its sensationalism and its comics; and The News for the fact that it is read by 500,000 people, all gum-chewers...
...same poster, their handiwork, in the dining room of the ex-little father, Nicholas. And Lenin had his feet on the table where Princess Olga once spilled her soup, and Trotzky was tapping with his knee the spot where the Czarevitch had once stuck a cud of Wrigleyitch gum...
...think on one's feet, when all that is necessary is memorizing a few hundred speeches? A few good topics for the diploma-in-hand job-seeking world-conquering graduate of a week's standing to be prepared on is "The Door to Success is Labeled Push" (like the gum machine), "A College Education is a greater Asset than a 50-AcreFarm" (Query, what does the phrase "college education" mean?), "Address of a Toastmaster at a Stage Hand Banquet" (D. C. Please note...
Anyone who goes to the Union tonight expecting to see the traditional knight of the gum-shoe will be sadly disappointed in W. J. Burns. He has all the uncanny genius of a Sherlock Holmes, but he combines it with the calm, every-day matter-of-factness of the average American business executive. As organizer of one of the greatest detective bureaus of the world, he has probably contributed more to the science of detecting crime than anyone living; but it is for his achievements single-handed in his pooneer days that he is most famous. Mr. Burns has crowded...