Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peak Egg, an egg substitute, the London Daily Mirror's acidulous Columnist Cassandra wrote: "No hen ever laid egg or eyes on Peak Egg. . . . Take eight ounces of ordinary flour and two ounces of bicarbonate of soda, add a little dye and just a trace of gum. Mix well . . . relax and wait for the great unending public of British suckers...
Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy submitted a plan for saving the Government millions of dollars worth of paper, gum, and ink: cut down the size of postage stamps...
Like U.S. artists in general, to whom they have a strong family resemblance, the Australians were short on abstractions and surrealist nightmares, showed a preference for plain pictures of the barren mountains, weedy gum trees, drab sheep barns and sprawling Victorian mansions of their native landscape. Like U.S. artists they were good water-colorists. Like U.S. Middle and Far Western artists of a generation ago, the Australians had learned most of their tricks from the 19th-Century French Barbizon landscapists, showed that they had been too busy pioneering to develop a distinct tradition of their own. The Australia they painted...
...defending his high dive, Clark had a hard time convincing the judges that his flips were superior to those of Sammy Lee, a gum-chewing Korean representing Occidental College. Lee finished with 105 points to Clark...
...mute Harpo speak and play himself (Banjo). In the third act they were rewarded by the bandersnatch entrance of Harpo, minus his red fright-wig but plus a violent shirt with enormous purple and red flowers. Wildly ogling the indulgent audience, he plucked all the Harpo strings, blew bubble gum, enjoyed himself no end. Last time he had spoken out loud on the stage was 25 years ago in a Texas tank town. The long silence had not improved his manners. Said he, stealing a line from the play's catty hero: "I may vomit...