Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Free Confetti. Welcome signs appeared in store windows. Fifth Avenue lampposts sprouted clusters of U.S. flags, flanked by the New York City crest and the Legion colors. The Salvation Army donated four donutmobiles. A gum company provided 60 million wrappers to be used as confetti...
Most astonishing for many Chinese present, however, was the sight of one of the judges, a lean-jawed colonel who chewed and chomped a wad of gum every day. "Perhaps," wrote one Chinese reporter, "this is typical of American judicial custom." After four days of testimony and gum-chewing, the court postponed its decision. The Chinese had not quite reached a decision either...
...editor knows her business girls better than they know themselves. By bombarding them with questionnaires, she has learned that they earn an average of $170 a month, that 71% of them chew gum, only 37% smoke 63% are single and 95% think (wishfully or otherwise) that it is not a man's world...
...were practicing trills and twitters in anticipation of a new Mutual show which will celebrate the canaries' 20th consecutive year on the air. In Portland, Ore., 250 sticky youngsters filled the air with gooey snaps and pops-and splattered the microphone-at the first broadcast of a bubble-gum contest...
...Bugsy Siegel. Virginia had flown from France, where she had swung at a reporter and kicked at photographers. Police met her at New York and engaged her in private chitchat between planes. On the Miami airfield she told reporters she had nothing to say, and, between chomps on her gum, asked them if they didn't understand English. She then joined the police again. They took her to her classy island home in Biscayne Bay, where she settled down to enjoy the climate with hired guards in residence...