Word: sandwiches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plump Mrs. Violet Van der Elst. The widow of a Belgian shaving-cream tycoon (Shavex), her jail-gate antics before the hanging of British murderers used to fill British authorities with quiet amusement but they do so no longer. With her Shavex-colored limousine, sound trucks blaring hymns, hired sandwich men and airplanes scattering leaflets, "Sweet Violet," as the penny press calls her, can be counted upon to draw large crowds of gawpers who mill about, tie up traffic for hours (TIME, April 15, 1935). Usually the crowd's sympathies have been with Widow Van der Elst...
Along Manhattan's 57th Street strollers last week spotted in the window of the Ferargil Galleries a carefully painted cutout figure of a sandwich man in a pot hat, holding a sign, just as they have done for 40 years, people wondered out loud whether the little man was not a colored photograph. There was only one person who could have painted it. After eleven years, white-haired, handsome Maxfield Parrish was holding an exhibition...
When his Contract Bridge Match for the "Championship of the World'' started in Manhattan last month Promoter Michael Strauss Jacobs proudly announced that, on its last evening, the event would be moved into Madison Square Garden, with 52 sandwich men impersonating a pack of cards so that 15,000 spectators could follow the play. True to his word, Promoter Jacobs last week moved the Four Aces, representing the U. S., and their French opponents, captained by Baron Robert de Nexon, into two cubicles at one end of the Garden. At the other end, on a huge platform, sandwich...
...seen nothing yet. The show that Mike Jacobs cooked up for the tenth and last night of the tournament will be held before 15,000 people in Madison Square Garden. The players will be closeted in soundproof glass booths. On a table top 100 ft. square, 52 sandwich men will act as cards, running out as they are played, falling down and being "swept up" when a trick is won. The victorious team will receive a new bridge cup, the International Challenge Trophy. What Mike Jacobs will receive is problematical...
...There will be only one major change in the schedule this year. Instead of playing the Yale games in a single series as we have done previously, we are going to have our first encounter with them on February 15, and sandwich games with McGill and Princeton between that one and the next...