Word: gumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late, have mainly concerned cloves, of which Zanzibar provides 80% of the world supply; India, in turn, consumes 90% of Zanzibar's output. There are three or four cloves in every betel leaf, and the average Indian citizen chews betel leaves more furiously than the average American chews gum-20 leaves...
...normal human tooth consists of a very hard outer casing, enamel where it projects beyond the gum, cementum (bone) inside the gum line; a less hard inner body of dentin (ivory); and at the core a soft pulp which contains an exquisitely sensitive nerve. Practically all dentists treat the hard enamel and dentin as though they are dead substances...
...cloud of gear teeth, both steering wheels flapping idly, both gas pedals down to the floor. The Vagabond tactfully arranged his harem around him to form a feminine cushion in case of a crash. At once he realized he had made a blunder. Mary's Dubble-Bubble chewing gum now exploded in his face with every third or fourth stroke of her jaws, spraying him with minty mixture...
...very evening, the Vagabond, a forgetful soul at best, leaped into the saddle of his single-control Ford and, weaving in and out and speeding and cutting off trucks all the way, whizzed his way to Wellesley. There he escorted for the evening a sullen creature who chewed no gum and had never heard of dual control...
...green eyeshade. Vexed by a stupid blunder* he would growl out loud, sometimes stamp his feet. Pleased by an apt phrase, he would vent a guffaw that apprised TIME'S writers that a new phrase had been canonized in TIME style. Disdainful of "gumchewers," he always chewed gum. Contemptuous of dead literature, he constantly held up Homer† as an example to TIME'S staff. Impatient of slow waiters, he disrupted many a staid restaurant by waving a napkin over his head to get attention. Generous, he would never lend a friend less than $5, said...