Word: gums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bushy-haired, gum-chewing Windol Whitt was found guilty of murder, sentenced to life imprisonment. His brother and one other companion are still to be tried for the same crime...
...different raffies were held. One was conducted by David M. Hersey, and offered a corsage to be given to the winner's date at the Jubilee. The other was staged by candidates James B. Adler and Stuart H. Trott, who awarded a jar of gum-drops...
...loafers, of jalopies, motor-scooters, bikes, and a litter of candy-wrappers inside almost every desk. Pupils call each other "meal" or "mope," .tell each other not to be a "squeegie" or a "sizzle." They slouch through the halls, let their legs sprawl out under desks. As for chewing gum, said one teacher, "If I tried to stop them I wouldn't have time for anything else...
...family man, but I am an actor. I hope the mothers of America will soon show me some mercy. Ever since I dumped the bowl of oatmeal on Roddy McCaskill in Sitting Pretty, I have been called on for assistance in rearing the bubble-gum youth of this nation. Through no desire of my own I have become probably the foremost child psychologist in the country...
...when she was away from New York. Most of her non-Broadway audiences had never seen a professional play before and "they approach a play in the same manner they would a football match. If they enjoy it they stamp and whistle wildly at the end . . . They eat everything, gum, popcorn, crispies. We know the show's been a success by the size of the pile of candy wrappers left behind...