Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans into creatures with eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all. Last week countless hordes of U.S. children not only went to the movies once a week, listened to their radio favorites among 27 children's network programs (often reading comic books and blowing bubble gum at the same time), but spent millions of kiddie-hours squinting hypnotically at the 35 shows offered them on flickering television screens...
...Last Roundup. Although Boyd takes a human delight in making a fast buck, his attitude toward the licensed products which made him most of the $800,000 (before taxes) he earned this year is one of really Hoppy-like restraint. He has refused to license bubble gum, sharp-pointed tops, and nine out of ten of the other products on which he has been asked to put his name, and has insisted on reasonable prices and good quality before giving his blessing to manufacturers...
...Greenwich Village, an eager chewing-gum salesman complains that the girls who he thought wore the roundest of heels put out nothing but Freudian doubletalk...
...York Democrats were acting as if Mighty Mouse had been caught stealing bubble gum. Even Tammany's politicians, delighted at having for once caught Tom Dewey in an embarrassing position, moulded their faces into expressions of self-righteous indignation...
...remains unsurpassed in putting over a song (and a show). No lungs can send forth more compelling sounds, no lips can enunciate words more clearly. She functions with the precision of a machine and the animation of a cheer leader, and is as American-and as lowdown-as chewing gum. Beyond that is her showmanship: even when her material lays an egg, she makes it seem a golden...