Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout the historic ceremony, Miss Padelford, wearing traditional white dress and veil and carrying a bouquet of heat-stricken gardenias, chewed quietly upon a wad of gum, as did her three bridesmaids. Constantly eased out of camera range by Bridegroom Hazen, Miss Padelford was only occasionally visible on the television screen. Municipal Judge Joseph Marchetti, who performed the ceremony, was inundated with confetti (rice will not televise) by a prop man with deplorable aim. After the service, while the organ moaned through Lohengrin, relatives of the bride and groom made a mad rush to congratulate the newlyweds...
Nicotinic acid, one of the elements of the Vitamin B complex, is found in liver, yeast, milk, green vegetables, fish and lean meat. It is a cure for pellagra, a diet-deficiency disease common in the southern U. S. but virtually unknown in Britain. Since the filmy, bleeding gums of trench mouth are similar to the symptoms of early pellagra, Dr. King had a hunch that trench mouth, too, might be caused by nicotinic acid deficiency which broke down gum tissue, paved the way for bacterial invasion. So he fed small amounts of the acid dissolved in water...
...landing, covered 20,000 miles. The Lomen brothers, who had found the reindeer industry no gold mine, were glad to sell out. On the few others who refused, Burdick slapped condemnation proceedings. He ingratiated himself with the Eskimos by dealing out not only reindeer but great quantities of bubble gum. The Government will collect the herds he purchased in reindeer corrals built by the Eskimo CCC, will lend reindeer to Eskimos for breeding, or in cases of destitution, for meat and clothing...
...dressing the Second Music Box Revue. Rudolph Valentino's wife, Natacha Rambova, took him from Broadway to Hollywood to make her husband's clothes, and Adrian has been dressing movie folk ever since. At M. G. M. he inhabits an oyster-white office, works furiously chewing gum, deep in an over stuffed chair which is disconcertingly set on a dais to keep him from dropping paint on the oyster-white carpet. In the groove, he can turn out a sketch in 20 minutes. Dresses like those in Susan and God cost M. G. M. between...
...apparel, paper, missionaries. From Mediterranean docks, the U. S. got a $153,677,000 import trade. Of this, too, American Export freighters carried the lion's share: long-staple cotton from Alexandria, olive oil from Piraeus and Leghorn, china from Beirut, cheese, rayon and vermouth from Genoa, pistachios, gum arabic, rags, onions, rice and tobacco. All told, the spread of war to the Mediterranean cost the U. S. a $316,439,000 export-import business, to be added to the $470,177,000 already lost in trade with Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and subsequent victims of Nazi might. This...