Word: yum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herald printed the colyum. From the next day's offering the Herald lopped off seven paragraphs dealing with California and paradise. On the following day Colyumist Brisbane told how economically one can live in California. Miami readers were not to suffer that. The Herald tossed the whole col-yum aside, dug up and printed instead some two-weeks-old Brisbanalities about naval armaments, the death of Santos-Dumont, etc., etc. Fortnight ago Westbrook Pegler, eloquent sports colyumist of the Chicago Tribune, was en route to the Olympic Games, writing his syndicated daily piece on the train as does Colyumist...
...note of novelty is supplied by Hizi Koyke, a Japanese, as the opera's Yum-Yum. She is charming, has a good voice, but strangely enough the fact that she is really Japanese adds little to the show, detracts from the pleasant unreality of the doings in the town of Titipu. Librettist Gilbert knew nothing and cared less about things Japanese. The opera suggested itself to him as he gazed at a curved sword on his English study wall...