Word: gums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room, named "Snitzy Arms." ("So you're not living with us any more!") When Mamma loses Philbert in a department store she finds him in the rattrap department, inside a trap. When she loses him at a cinema theatre, the usher finds Philbert stuck to the chewing gum under the seat. Last month Philbert achieved one distinction never granted Henry. He appeared on Collier's cover, in full color, for New Year...
...work of smaller goalies more spectacular. These qualities give his style of play a peculiar indolence which he exaggerates as much as possible. Instead of chattering encouragement to his teammates, the method by which most goalies relieve their nervous tension, he munches slowly a huge wad of chewing gum, rarely speaks a word during a game. Instead of waving his arms, he lounges against his cage as if it were a mantelpiece. All this helps mask his real capabilities: preternaturally quick eyes, phenomenal ability to spread his bulky frame across his goal...
Attorney General Cummings listened to these opening arguments, placidly chewing gum, tobacco, paper or whatnot. After Frederick H. Wood, in sonorous periods, had launched B. & O.'s counterattack, Mr. Cummings took the stand. He argued little about the law, less about economics, a great deal about horrendous social consequences. He told the Court at length that a great emergency had existed in 1933. He estimated that there were $100,000,000,000 of Government and private gold obligations outstanding. If these had to be paid back in devalued dollars, it would take $169,000,000,000. Cried the Attorney...
Also to be seen : a clock with a million possible settings for the alarm; an automatic chewing gum vendor in which a miniature bronco kicks out the gum; an iron mask to supplant hot towels in facial massages ; a gadget for looping up trouser-legs to resemble knickerbockers; a powder-puff for removing neck wrinkles and double chins; a mechanical backscratcher...
...York the oldtime slot machine which turns out grimy pieces of chewing gum at the drop of a coin is illegal as soon as it is converted into a money-paying gambling device. But the pin game is a game of skill, according to a ruling of the Department of Licenses. Last week the License Commissioner announced that some 10,000 pin game machines had been licensed at $5 a machine. Wiseacres estimated that another 25,000 machines are being operated in the city without licenses. An organization called the Skill Games Board of Trade was formed last year...