Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctor, was positively not capable of muscling back into Chicago (as rumor had him). In fact, he was not capable of any thing much: paretic Al patted tennis balls into a net, was "probably unaware" of world events. Summarized the doctor brilliantly: "He's very fond of chewing gum...
Almost every night in the week a handful of Manhattan cops take up their routine posts around Eighth Avenue and 49th Street. While they boredly chomp their gum, inside Madison Square Garden thousands of New Yorkers goggle at circuses and rodeos, listen to politics, yell their heads off at prize fights...
...have revealed a tendency on the part of certain countries to play a dominating part in the organization to the detriment of the cause of peace and security." His audience of 18,000 cheered him to the roof. Outside the Garden, the cops boredly walked their beat, chomped their gum, guarding Mr. Gromyko's right to freedom of speech...
National Champion McKinney, chewing gum confidently after it was over, spilled the secret of his success: "I read a lot. What, for instance? Oh, lots of things. But I'll tell you something I like. It's the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...News, with Hearst's Mirror and Bernarr Macfadden's now defunct Graphic, was the ribald historian of the flapper-speakeasy-whoopee '20s. They competed in a pell-mell rush to give Manhattan gum-chewers the lowdown on Fatty Arbuckle, Peaches Browning, Arnold Rothstein, Kip Rhinelander. The grisliest news-picture of the era-Murderess Ruth Snyder in Sing Sing's electric chair-was run by Patterson's personal order...