Word: sandwich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nothing looks worse than a big flask on one side and a sandwich box on the other. Carry one or the other, but not both. . . . Do not strew the paper from your sandwich box all about the countryside...
...considerable experience along these general lines in handling the major contests of last year, and for some reason thought they knew what ought to be procured. In a huddle with the Employment Office potentates most of the difficult problems were patched up, but on the question of sandwiches the opposite camps struck an impasse. Both had definite ideas on the subject. A pitched battle ensued and the Employment Office gained an initial victory, emerging from the contest with colors flying. Five hundred more sandwiches than the senior partners thought wise were to be ordered. The triumph was celebrated...
...during Harvard, whence he was graduated in 1925. He reviews books for metropolitan newspapers and The Saturday Review of Literature. In 1927 he was responsible for Ask Me Too, a juvenile version of the Ask Me Another book of educative questions-answers. Lately he returned to live at Sandwich, Mass., where he guards well the secret of his next book's subject...
...Commissioner Voorhis' eyes are a little dim, his ears a little deaf, his walk a little shaky, but otherwise he is well-preserved. Strong of will, sharp of speech, he still lives in Greenwich Village, takes a ham sandwich to work with him for luncheon. He advises young men to stay out of politics, is "for the women-strong," opposes Prohibition, would like to see New York City made a separate state...
...were 2,000 self-supporting women. Members of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, they discussed their problems between speeches and ballotings. Mrs. Ora H. Snyder, Chicago, head of a chain of candy stores, had opportunity to compare business methods with Miss Elsie Flake, "sandwich queen" of Winston-Salem, N. C. Miss Marion McClench, prime insurance saleswoman of Detroit, could talk shop with Miss Ella Schroeder, successful diamond merchant of Cincinnati. Tampa's Postmistress Elizabeth Rainard had a look at Miss Emma Coldiron of Walla Walla, Wash., operator of a de luxe bus line...