Word: gums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends before further damage can be done. During the game, handicapped by the pain in his hand, he fails to come up to the expectations of Western cohorts, in fact, he drops a last minute pass that would have won for dear old Western. For the benefit of the gum-chewing habitues of Boston's second balconies, however, the ending is a happy...
Philip Knight Wrigley (gum...
...last week, First National nonetheless had reason to be satisfied with its advertising trick. Captain Ayers, who saw the picture while waiting for claimants to appear, pronounced it authentic and ingenious, complimented Actor Stone, pointed out that his underlings, unlike Captain Webb's, are forbidden to chew gum. Penthouse (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cinemaddicts who have never been there must have confused ideas about Manhattan. Lady for a Day exhibits the city as a paradise for addle-headed apple vendors. Bureau of Missing Persons show's gentle detectives tenderly dissuading vague citizens from intentional amnesia (see above). In Penthouse...
Ever since last summer's campaign Franklin Roosevelt & friends have felt the need of a magazine through which the New Deal could be expounded and illustrated to the masses. Both Mr. & Mrs. Roosevelt wrote for the gum-chewing Macfadden Press. After inauguration the Roosevelt secretariat was encouraged to talk by radio and write for publication. Professor Moley was most prolific, turning out a "State of the Nation" colyum for the McNaught syndicate, less readable but more helpful than Democrat Al Smith's monthly pieces in the New Outlook. In elaborating their plans last week, Backers Astor & Harriman...
...time of the theft police advanced the theory that the sneak thief had used a stick tipped with chewing gum to lift the bonds from behind the teller's window. William J. Burns Detective Agency believe that he might have wheedled from a runner or other company employe the exact time that the bonds would be delivered, arranged to have a crony telephone the teller when he crooked a finger. The telephone would distract the teller for a split-second, and a split-second is all a smart thief needs. Once the thief had the bonds they probably passed...