Word: sandwiches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week a gaunt and hungry tomeat approached Agassiz Hall in Radcliffe Yard. The girls looked upon this tragic figure of a cat, and took pity. They took it in and fed it scraps from a tuna fish sandwich...
...late-and generally a closer kin to Emett's famed Punch cartoons than to the glossy streamliners. The short-run trains are little better. For the smell of stale tobacco smoke, the sight of stained seat cushions, and close contact with orange peel, cigar butts, and sandwich wrappers, the U.S. offers nothing quite like a Pennsylvania Railroad day coach on the New York to Washington...
Unfairness of Politics. In the waiting room at Paris' Orly Airport, the Maharaja, toying with the remains of a ham sandwich, talked to the press. "Why should I take any money from my country's treasury?" he asked. A gold and ruby bracelet glittered on his chubby wrist as he lit a Dunhill Cedros de Luxe. "I have no idea what is behind the charge . . . India is going from Socialist to Communist, as you know. But I suppose we shouldn't say that, should...
...soldiers on Orizaba kept Mexican photographers from taking pictures of the corpses. All through the night the Mexican press was kept sitting, cold, hungry and idle. The gringos gave them no help, lent them not a blanket, gave them not a sandwich nor a cup of coffee...
...metronome, and as unexcitable. City-room staffers clock him in every day: hanging up his hat & coat at 5:20 p.m., putting them on again at exactly 12:05 a.m. Some times during the evening he looks up, summons one cf the city-room waiters and orders a sandwich and glass of milk from the cafeteria. Reporters like the way Garst seeks their judgment on a story's value (Garst: "How much space do you want to give it?"), respect the quick but never superficial reading he gives their copy, admire his calm in a news crisis. Said Star...