Word: sandwiches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stranded in Scarboro, Me., when fog grounded a Bangor-Boston airliner, Doris Duke bought a $2 ticket, climbed into a bus. At Portsmouth she had a sandwich and cup of coffee in the railroad station, thanked the driver: "I'm awfully glad you stopped here. I was starving." At Boston she was met by one of her nine cars, a $14,000 Dusenberg. whisked off to Newport...
...Cross nurses with stimulants and concentrated food preparations moved to Mixcoac Hill on the second day. The newspaper National thought the broadcasters were improving as their hunger increased. Senor Esperanza Estrada sang "A Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich and You," fainted dead away...
...Democrat to a $10,000-a-year job, the President was in no hurry to appoint a new Governor. Not until he had been in office nearly a year did he finally pick a successor to Lawrence McCully Judd, descendant of a Yankee medical missionary who went to the Sandwich Islands a century ago. Then he appointed the next best thing to the kind of man he originally wanted?a Democrat who had lived on the islands only 17 years...
Masters & Men. Thus after monarchs, missionaries and merchants came a Montanan to join the company of rulers who have governed the Sandwich Islanders. In 1820 in the days of the sandalwood trade, when missionaries began to arrive by shiploads, the islands were ruled by the native dynasty founded by the great Kamehameha. The missionaries undertook more than the care of Polynesian souls. They became advisers and ministers to the native monarchs. Their lay offspring became merchants and, with Yankee traders who settled there, took the islands' economic upbringing firmly in hand. Thus sprang up a benevolent white aristocracy which developed...
...again prevented by her family. She saved ?20, quit her job and knocked on London stage doors, found them all shut. She became a governess, a dancing teacher. Mrs. Patrick Campbell watched her work, offered her a job. Three years of touring cured her. She worked in a London sandwich bar, taught elocution, began to write. Now a full-fledged author, she has written more than a dozen books, has lectured widely in the U. S. Matador (with Years Are So Long) is the July choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...