Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American.. Journal of Surgery, Dr. S. L. Goldberg urges chlorophyll, the green coloring matter of plants, for trench mouth. Of 122 cases with severe gum infection, 98 were cured (usually in three or four days) and 24 were improved by using chlorophyll sprays twice a day plus frequent eye-dropper injections of chlorophyll between the teeth...
...hopeful girls, 33 in all, were held practically incommunicado. (City fathers were sure that the 10,000 soldiers, sailors, Coast Guardsmen in the area were all on the prowl.) The girls were forbidden dates, drinking, smoking, gum-chewing. They could not talk to a man "without permission." They were surrounded at all times by a massed armada of gimlet-eyed chaperons, including 20 of their mamas, and a special platoon of Atlantic City matrons, hand-picked for their motherliness. Six well-armed Atlantic City cops, on "antiwolf patrol" under Acting Sergeant Robert Silvagni, flanked the girls wherever they went...
Last week one of the big Government-building cafeterias (the Bureau of Printing & Engraving) was denounced as "horribly unhealthy." Specific gripes in the complaint of the United Federal Workers of America (C.I.O.): a mouse in the soup container, worms cooked in greens, a caterpillar in the gingerbread, chewing gum on a pie plate, fish scales in the soup, improperly washed china...
Most of her dates are with British and U.S. officers her own age. When one of them took her to see the prize fights between British and U.S. soldiers, she saw her first boxing. She asked everyone around her about the rules, cheered, chewed gum...
Although she has more or less given up the world of the New York theatre following her experience with New York policemen after the Little Flower closed her tragedy, "Wine, Women, and Song," Margie has acquired the New York habit of gum-chewing, and chows most gracefully while she talks...