Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cheapest, easiest way to furnish an apartment, it turns out, does not involve a single visit to the thrift shop or the Salvation Army. Now a savvy decorator can pick up a headboard, radio, picture frame, Tiffany lamp shade, stained-glass window and even a bubble-gum machine, all for less than $30-and carry them home in a shopping bag. That's because People Paper is instant make-believe furniture, designed to be pasted onto walls...
...expensive, a Victorian brass headboard at $6). All adhere to any surface, can be switched around and remounted like a stage backdrop. They also give their owners some grand illusions: of a phone without phone bills, a Tiffany shade that does not have to be insured, and a bubble-gum machine that is guaranteed never, never...
...name summons up fond and durable memories: the gum-chewing philosopher of humor, the man of homely common sense that somehow added up to uncommon wisdom. Out of it he fashioned not one, but a half-dozen careers-rodeo bronco rider, walk-on humorist (before the phrase had even been invented), Ziegfeld Follies headliner, movie star, radio commentator, newspaper columnist -a one-man galaxy of talent. He lives again on the stage of Washington, D.C.'s Ford Theatre in a gifted recreation by James Whitmore in a show appropriately titled Will Rogers' U.S.A...
...morning early; I hold tightly not to fall, and watch passing towns. Away from Harvard, between cars on Long Island Railroad, too early to get a seat; I watch (through grey dust) passing towns to avoid eyes of heavyset leering businessman who offers me a smoke, a stick of gum, a wink. Too early. Perhaps I should have looked harder for a seat; this area between cars is no-man's-land, and certainly no woman's. Same hazards as walking alone down 42nd St. Mister, mister, leave me alone; today is the day of Women's Liberation. Tonight...
Summertime is down time, especially in show business and most particularly in the record industry. It sometimes seems it is a time of year when novelty items catch on, with titles that go on almost as long as the hours of daylight. Remember Lonnie Donegan and Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight? Or how about Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini? Well, now there are two more examples of the same kind of lunacy...