Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit to a carnival to buy a dog, he meets a calculating blonde floozy (Beverly Michaels), who soon has him at the end of her leash. Unable to resist his $7,000 bank account, she marries him. Then, showing her contempt as broadly as she chews her gum, she waits around for a chance to get rid of her husband and get her hands on his bank account...
...York's gum-chewing Daily News took time out from huffing at Harry to return to a hot-weather editorial battle it has been waging for years. Subject: men's summer wear-too many, too heavy and too hot. Said the News: "We've never . . . blown our editorial horn for any nudist cult . . . Where do you put your change, cigarettes and matches? [But] we've urged outright rebellion against any and all social edicts which say a guy has to pull a hot jacket over a carcass which already, probably, is steaming like a 1908 Maxwell...
...worse on the end of your cigar." Until Hill and his machine-made Cremos, the U.S. had happily smoked stogies rolled by hand. It was Hill's contention that cigar makers' saliva held the stogies together at their tip, but cigar makers insisted that they used vegetable gum...
...watched G.I.s start this thing, with their ready response to 'Gum, chum?' shouts by English kids, their handout cigarettes in France, even their swapped watches when they met their allies, at that time the Russians. EGA, in similar spirit and greater substance, continued the job. This governmental first aid is about over and a bigger rehabilitation job is getting under way. American goods, methods, ideas have gone out only in samples...
...Admissions Office added Graham R. Taylor '49 as Gummere's first full-time assistant, and Dana M. Cotton also began helping the office on a part-time basis. In addition other officials like Bender, von Stade, Monro, Dean Leighton, and Professors Lect and Menzel have aided Gum mere by making special trips to admissions "problem areas...