Word: gums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Above average in intelligence (candidates are nominated by Congressmen, but must pass a stiff entrance examination), midshipmen are trained in a strict code of regulations that governs every detail of their lives down to gum-chewing. By the time he graduates, a midshipman can be recognized anywhere by his straight carriage (not as stiff as West Point's), his poise, his fluency (every midshipman is trained in after-dinner speaking), his robust health...
Equally stony-eyed was Italian Ambassador Prince Ascanio Colonna. When he stepped out of Political Adviser James Dunn's office, and into the elevator, photographers backed him against the wall, flashed closeups. Said Colonna: "I have delivered nothing. I came to inquire." (Commented the gum-chewing, irrepressible New York Daily News: "Okay, Prince, goombye please...
Round-faced, gum-chewing Federal Judge H. Church Ford overruled the Big Three's motions for a new trial, imposed a $15,000 fine on each company and 13 executives, plus court costs. Sentence will presumably be passed later on the other defendants,* who were included in the charges, but did not stand trial, agreed to abide by the Big Three verdict...
...Requests made of two movie stars by 1,821 fan writers included: a cake of soap, a "piece of gum you have chewed," a cigaret butt, three hairs, a bicycle, and permission to name a pet flea after the star...
...slugging of oil paintings nor the flyweight speed of watercolor, are the middleweights of painting, command a smaller price (usually from $50 to $150) but put on a fine show for the money. Unlike oil paint, gouache* (a combination of opaque colors ground in water and a preparation of gum arabic) is mixed with water in painting, is fast-drying, cheap and simple to use. Gouache painters need neither easels, oil, turpentine nor expensive canvas, can paint conveniently on anything from paper to wallboard. Unlike watercolor, where the texture of the paper shows through the paint, the pigment in gouache...