Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday-supplement lore, the Hope diamond is "accursed." When the McLeans' firstborn, Vinson Walsh McLean, was killed by an automobile, gum-chewers promptly accepted the tragedy as further proof of the diamond's "curse...
Dorothy Dix (Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer), newspaper adviser to lovelorn gum-chewers . . . Litt.D...
...acts, many British. Juggler Rich Hayes (British) drew royal smiles. Blackfaces Alexander & Mose (British) caused Lady May Cambridge to titter. Xylophonist Teddie Brown (U. S.) realized his ambition of some years to play at a "command performance" and thus swell his British gate. But with a gobbet of chewing gum, Broadway's robustious Al Trahan stopped the show, rocked the Palladium with mighty mirth and convulsed the Royal Party...
...Trahan's act (he was lately in The Second Little Show) consists in messing with a huge wad of chewing gum while he plays the piano and is mauled by Miss Eukona Cameron when she is not singing. Last week Miss Cameron did not tear off quite so many of Mr. Trahan's outer clothes as usual. But the chewing gum oozed and blobbered from Mr. Trahan's lips, was stuck under the piano, retrieved, chewed, stuck again, smeared on the piano keys, frantically stretched in all directions, finally gathered together for the supreme effort of mirth...
...Buffalo, dinner was announced in the home of Jack Farrell, 5. Jack Farrell was chewing gum. Before he took his seat at the table he put his masticated gobbet not behind his ear, as is a popular fashion, but in his ear. Surgeons had to cut his ear apart, get the gum...