Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whenever Gum-Man William Wrigley Jr. was away from Chicago, as regularly to be expected as the morning mail were his daily long distance telephone calls to his office in the Wrigley Building. Often they lasted for an hour or two. Sometimes they came from California. Sometimes they came from Arizona. Fortnight ago, the calls stopped abruptly. It was announced that Bill Wrigley was ill in Phoenix. Not seriously, just a slight heart attack following acute indigestion. A week later, another telephone call came from Phoenix, but it was not from Mr. Wrigley. Death had come to him early that...
...United to comply with certain terms, ordered work stopped. When United's engineers showed no signs of abandoning the project, President Vincente Mejia Colindres said that Honduran honor and sovereignty had been violated, that force would be used if necessary. Beech-Nut Packing Co. (bacon, coffee, candy, chewing gum) last week sold its subsidiary Beech-Nut Co. of Canada, Ltd. to Life Savers, Inc., owned by Drug, Inc. Chief item in the sale was Beech-Nut's plant at Hamilton, Ont. equipped for making gum & candy. Hitz Hotels. In receivership is Detroit's smart, big (1,200 rooms) Book-Cadillac...
...fact that the Beech-Nut Gum advertisement on the back cover was paid for, might well have been guessed by the casual reader. It showed the caricature of a Negro girl alongside the gum-slogan: "Makes the next smoke taste better." Other paid advertisements in the issue, more disrespectful to the product and much funnier, are harder to identify...
...Opera House. Outside were sold phonograph records, sheet music composed about the Quiet Dell tragedy, a pamphlet called The Love Secrets of West Virginia's Bluebeard. Led into the Opera House every day on a chain like a little bear, Mr. Powers sat on the stage and chewed gum apathetically. After hearing his defense, which attributed the murders to two mythical acquaintances of Powers', a jury of farmers and townspeople retired to the star's dressing room, deliberated for not quite two hours. From his desk which was framed by papier-mâché trees...
...trifle tight. Black bow ties cover his collar button. An instinctive politician, he has a ready smile, a friendly chuckle, hosts of one-name friends. He is a Knight of Pythias, Son of the American Revolution, Methodist Episcopalian (South), all in good standing. He smokes cigars, chews gum and tobacco...