gum

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Bartender Yevgeniya Chernyshkova was lined up Thursday for a shot at Moscow’s GUM department store just off Red Square after the government required vaccinations for workers in some sectors.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 2, 2021

Ten years ago, Dorothy Seabok and Ary Anderson were part of a sewing team bringing the hobby to youth at the Grace United Methodist Church, or the GUM program.

From Washington Times • Oct. 10, 2020

Detsky Mir has one big advantage for recently-exfiltrated Soviet spies over better known department stores like GUM: It’s a toy store.

From Slate • May 31, 2018

It reminds me of Moscow’s GUM department store in the days of the Soviet Union.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2017

While nobody talks anything but sugar at Martinique, nor cod in Newfoundland, at St. Louis the only subject of conversation is GUM.

From Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville by Loyd, Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson)