Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entered the lobby and purchased gum, according to clerk Everett Cutler. One of them produced a gun, told Cutler to lie face down on the floor, and rifled the cash register...
...patched up after Duren admitted he had drunk too much, but the management felt obliged to keep a squad of private detectives on the players to make sure they stayed in shape for the World Series. In the ensuing comedy of errors, one gumshoe (he was actually wearing gum-soled shoes) shadowed Star Pitcher Bob Turley for three days and discovered Turley seldom drinks anything stronger than soda pop. A group of Yankees led detectives a merry chase all over Detroit on an innocent quest for popcorn at the Y.M.C.A...
Harold has a can of beer and a package of gum remaining; or a one-way subway token to Scollay Square (he can come back tomorrow); or English muffins and a cup of tea. Or a package of cigarettes. But it is night, the time of neon and lengthy shadows, streetlamps, hushed voices, nervous laughter, and sex. Night is Harold's garment of life...
...dollars. (I tried to find out what they wanted them for; all said they were buying them for "friends"-perhaps Soviet tourists, of whom hundreds are currently loose in groups in Europe.) Sometimes teen-agers wanted to exchange Soviet emblems, officers' pips, even medals for chewing gum, foreign clothes, pens and dollars. In most cases, these people were not disturbed when I spoke to them in Russian...
...comedy marriage, through Central Park-until he finally finds Annabel's reincarnation in Dolores Haze, known as Lolita. She is his culture-vulture landlady's daughter in a small New England town where Humbert has holed up to do some literary work. The girl is just a gum-chewing, Coke-filled, comic-book-educated sub-teen-ager -but she is Humbert's fatal love...