Word: gums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Myrt & Marge Wrigley's Chewing Gum...
Uptown New York (World Wide) is in a quieter vein than Central Park (see above), a three-cornered Bronx romance about a blonde Patricia (Shirley Grey) who marries a chewing gum salesman (Jack Oakie) after she has had a love affair with a successful surgeon (Leon Waycoff). The time comes when, to save Patricia's life after an accident, it is necessary for the surgeon to operate on her. Eddie, her husband, decides that after all Patricia likes the surgeon best; to facilitate her leaving him, he absents himself from home. When Patricia guesses what he has done...
...thief strolled into Continental Bank and purloined $500,000 in Government bonds from behind a teller's window. Police and bank officials advanced the startling theory that the thief had fished the bonds out through the grating while the teller was not looking, using a stick with chewing gum...
...reports the Southern Baptist Handbook for 1932, published last week. Listed as money misspent: $46,200,000 a year on tobacco; $26,000,000 on cinema; $21,580,000 on automobile outings; $35,000,000 on soft drinks and chewing gum; more than $43,000,000 on cosmetics. The Southern Baptist Church needs $40,000,000. "Look about you. . . . quit YOUR WHINING!" cries the Handbook...
Pisonia Branonia is a New Zealand tree which Maoris call "The Birdcatcher." Its seeds grow in clusters covered with heavy gum. When small birds fly into the tree, their feathers are caught by the sticky seed pods. The more they struggle, the tighter they get gummed up. A resident of New Plymouth, N. Z., named J. Wheeler has a birdcatcher tree which has trapped hundreds of small birds. Last week it killed its largest victim, a brown owl which natives call the rum. Englishmen the Morepork...