Word: sandwiches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...half the normal number of pharmacy students have graduated. Of the 10,000 licensed druggists in the armed forces, 2,000 will never return to civilian mortars and pestles. One trouble: the rise of the glittering emporium-type drugstores and the fact that pharmacists have to double ingloriously as sandwich cutters and alarm-clock salesmen...
Shoppes & Sodas. A shrill curfew whistle sends Val D'Or's moppets kiting home at 9 p.m. The town's Third Avenue (the main stem) has nine hotels* (including a Ritz and a Continental), sandwich shoppes and beauty salons, four furniture stores, taxis, even such accouterments of civilization as a nightclub and a stock exchange (one recent day's business: 27,000 shares, representing $50,000). Val D'Or's drug stores sell barrels of pop. Miners get ice cream sodas at the Splendid Sweets...
...Liberty lacks today is package," says Hunter, moaning low over his lack of better paper to match his better contents. Pointing to the pulp layer in the middle of a slick paper sandwich, he sighs: "We have to print novels on toilet paper...
...John Wilkes. This squint-eyed, witty, opportunistic M.P. had immense charm, justly boasting that he could "talk away" his ugly face in half an hour. He led a dazzlingly licentious existence-swilling, wenching, dabbling in the "blasphemous and priapic" rites of the notorious Hell Fire Club. "Wilkes," said Lord Sandwich, "you will die of a pox or on the gallows." "That depends, my Lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress...
...warm spring day, and you know what spring in southern England means. I have been across to Henekey's Bar by the side of Elizabeth's Grays Inn, where a bit of medieval still stands. There among the barrels I have had my beer and sandwich, stunned as if I had lost a personal friend-for it was this morning that we learned you had lost your President...