Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day at 7:45 a.m. and on to St. Joseph-where in a raw breeze, surrounded by rouged Indian ladies, gum-chewing, feather-bonneted Indian bucks, Mr. Farley launched hoarsely into a lengthy eulogy of the Pony Express...
...Labor Department's list of 784 commodities, silver's importance is rated at .07 of 1%. The chewing gum industry's output is twice as valuable as silver mining. Silver though supported, productionwise is only as important as grape jelly, or wire nails, or packers' prime tallow, or anhydrous ammonia. Silver is less important than linoleum, glue, leather gloves, strawberries, spaghetti, nuts...
...Gum-chewing Senator Donahey took on only one Senate chore. After a squad of Senators had turned down the chairmanship of the TVA investigation, he took it, kept order with a Boy Scout knife which he used alternately as a toothpick, nail-clipper, and gavel...
...Gum-chewing, fuzzy-voiced Actress Chatterton, 46, dimpled her way to fame on Broadway as Little Orphan Judy in soppy Daddy Long-Legs, kept climbing with young-girl parts in Come Out of the Kitchen, Mary Rose. Leaving Broadway in 1925, she acted for a while in San Francisco, wound up in Hollywood. There, in the early days of the talkies, she clicked as one of the few who knew how to talk. There she was as much typed for fallen women roles (Madame X, Once a Lady, Frisco Jenny) as she had been for sweet young things on Broadway...
...Ziskin made it clear that only skilled doctors and dentists could apply the healing salves, for the body's hormone balance is very delicate. Sex hormone toothpastes, he warned, might gum up the body's works far worse than gingivitis...