Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every human fact in its path, must muscle its way back to its natal cave, its mouth full of dimes and nickels? . . . The Hollywood film exists only as the celebration of cold, canny (not so canny!) investment, with the resultant desire to make every movie as accessible as chewing gum, for which no more human maturity of audience is needed than a primitive pair of jaws and a bovine philosophy . . . For my personal health I'm back in New York...
...sunny red-tiled loggia, practically naked ("not just in shorts, but often just wearing a handkerchief or something," says Vera). Then he dresses, plunges into his workroom, labors at a table that resembles an architect's and rivals Franklin Roosevelt's for gimcracks: rows of art gum erasers, each neatly labeled, trays of pens, pencils, different colors and kinds of inks. He has two pianos in the narrow room, a grand and an upright, and still does his composing at the piano...
...make no destructive criticism of the Allies; 2) there must be no editorializing or propaganda. Most big Japanese papers issued secret monthly guidebooks to keep their staffs posted on the changing interpretations and taboos of the touchy U.S. censors. Sample advice: don't say that U.S. newsmen chewed gum at the opening of the Diet (they did, but the press must not present such an "unfavorable" picture of the occupation...
Closemouthed. In Chicago, police who arrested Mitchell Wrona declared that he had hidden $6,500 worth of stolen diamonds in his chewing gum...
...York Times's lean and waggish Meyer Berger wondered if the fate of the party might not be settled in "Coke-filled rooms." Tom Dewey's campaign workers wooed them wildly with gifts. They handed out bottles of deodorant, emery boards, silver polish, Life Savers, chocolate, chewing gum, cigarette holders, pocket combs-and brown paper sacks to carry all the boodle...