Word: gumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issued a post-mortem (in advance of official reports): a rag in the air intake had choked off the Q.E.D.'s breath. Crash Board Member Carl B. Allen hastened to add that sabotage was out of the question because no saboteur could so plant a rag as to gum the works at a crucial moment. How it got there remained any man's guess. Some guesses: 1) the propeller whisked it off the ground into the intake; 2) a careless grease-monkey left it near the intake; 3) sabotage...
...children's favorite playmate was their Uncle, the Prince of Wales. . . . Queen Elizabeth told me their uncle taught them American slang. . . . And I'll never forget the day the children came to lunch, hardly able to speak because their uncle had given them their first chewing gum...
Most of the songs U. S. folklorists collect are regional curiosities or quaint survivals that sound strange to the average American. Overlooked by such specialists is the great mass of songs the average American sings, songs that are as familiar as bathtubs or chewing gum. These songs go out of fashion into limbo. But they are authentic U. S. folk music, nonetheless...
...admission free and festivities commencing at 9 o'clock, the big stag party will feature a starting array of talent plus the additional attraction of free refreshments to be dispensed in Memorial Hall. Drinks donated by Hires, Moxie, and Coca Cola, ice cream from Hood's, and Chiclet chewing gum will be distributed, and all who attend will also be presented with cigarettes, tobacco, and pipes given by Leavitt and Pierce, and by Liggett and Myers...
...From this humble beginning eventually sprang Dennison Manufacturing Co. of Framingham, Mass., today the leading U. S. paper converter, with $10,400,000 in assets and 1938 sales of $12,528,000 from a line of 9,000 items including crepe paper, tags, paper boxes, seals, gum paper...