Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jobless "Tree Army" boy receives $30 pay per month, with laundry, tobacco, chewing gum and picture shows free. He takes no oath and is free to go home any time he chooses. It has been estimated that not more than 30% of the accepted candidates for the C. C. C. could have passed the Regular Army enlistment examination, therefore the higher qualified 70?-per-day soldier has been cut to 59½? per day so that the budget could be balanced, and the unqualified, out-of-job boy may be paid $1 per day for doing useless labor...
...blatant souvenir-hawkers); "stupendous" (the vast buildings, the colored domes, the lighted causeways); ''bewildering" (the endless exhibits, the jostling crowds); "disorderly" (the hodge-podge of scientific displays and Coney Island peep-shows); "interesting & instructive" (the industrial exhibits, the historical displays; but, even more so, the naive, gum-chewing, beer-swigging crowds); "wearying" (the 82 miles of exhibits, the hard gravel walks, the heat); "exasperating" (the incessant cries of "'Yeah, Folks!" "Step this way folks." "Hot dawgs, hot dawgs!" "Mister, have you tried our health drink?"); "amusing" (the comments of the crowd); "salacious" (the sideshows of the Midway...
Last fortnight a schoolboy in Fond du Lac, Wis. wrote to Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, who chews gum: "What part has gum played in your success?" Gumchewer Farley wrote back, "I don't know whether gum played any part in my success, but it was not a retarding factor." Last week the boy crowed back, "My assistant principal said chewing gum was a bad habit, that no gumchewer could succeed. I read your letter in the class, and it got a lot of applause...
William J. Fox, construction engineer for the Supervisors, testified that school buildings were "covered with ornaments stuck on with chewing gum." The Los Angeles Examiner said that it had analyzed mortar used in school buildings, found it one-third to one-half as strong as required by law. Another engineer, W. M. Bostock, was of the opinion that "no moral or legal responsibility is to be fixed. At the worst the builders were greedy and wanted a little too much building for their money...
...Lone Wolf Tribe (Wrigley's Chewing Gum). An Indian powwow, opening with lugubrious war-whoops which listening children mimic. Gifts to be obtained for chewing gum wrappers: a pin, a book of tribal secrets, Indian regalia...