Word: gums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cautious interviewee-on his appointment to Chicago he refused to say whether he would transfer his allegiance from the Milwaukee Braves to the Chicago Cubs. Met by a crowd of newsmen and clerics at a Chicago airport last week, as he returned from Washington, Meyer chomped his chewing gum vigorously. "Of course, I am happy for myself," he said, "but I am even happier for the people of Chicago. We must be even more dedicated now." Archbishop Meyer is expected to be the only one of the new cardinals who will not be assigned to the Curia in Rome...
...strength of the film lies in its patchwork humor: rock 'n' roll in an air raid shelter, the Fenwickian girls waiting for the victorious American soldiers with signs, such as "Gum Chum," and Big Four ministers playing the board game "Diplomacy." What mars the film, apart from acting flaws, is chiefly an over-reliance on corn and gag lines, like Miss Seberg's "I always thought you were a snake, you snake." If the script is supposed to be satire on the usual Hollywood cliches, it does not come off as such, but sounds merely trite itself...
...paper route. One summer he sold bottled spring water from a wagon pulled by his dog. At eleven he attended his first presidential nominating convention-the historic, tumultuous Baltimore Democratic Convention that nominated Woodrow Wilson in 1912-as a vendor of peanuts, popcorn, tobacco and chewing gum...
...snoring, asked all British sufferers (and their suffering spouses) to write in the answers to questions that might shed light on causes and remedies. Sample questions: At what age did the snorer begin snoring? In what position does he sleep? Does he have false teeth, or smoke, or chew gum...
...Moscow's mammoth GUM department store a plump, blonde secretary mooned over a Tula portable sewing machine priced at 1,200 rubles,* finally planked down 300 rubles, signed some papers and took it with her. In an Izmailovo radio store a middle-aged man watched the clerk packing an expensive Luxe radio-phonograph and said: "I only had to pay 440 rubles, and we'll have music in our home this very night." Whether cameras, clocks, accordions, motor scooters, outboard motors or silver fox furs, the terms were everywhere the same: 20%-25% down, a service charge...