Word: sandwiches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dearborn last week visiting his good friend Henry Ford, Alabama's famed Negro Scientist George Washington Carver inaugurated a new food laboratory, chatted about the possibility of Michigan-raised rubber, gladly munched (with Industrialist Ford) a sandwich made of weeds, which he had prepared...
Meanwhile, the band leaders, their partners in this patriotic game, are interrupting broadcasts from jammed nightclubs to sandwich in gems like "I know that while you're out there enjoying the music you're still thinking of our gallant boys who are overseas giving their all. I don't have to tell you what you ought to do, folks--I guess you all know." Whereupon he stumbles through something about defense bonds and retires, abashed, having succeeded only in sounding completely mechanical and uneasy...
...Long Night Watch. And so the aid had come at last. Dr. Chiang, and the Chiang for whom he spoke, might be pardoned for a tiny grain of bitterness, for remarking, politely, that certain countries "sandwich a great deal of talk between actions...
Although there is hardly room for the rest of the cast to sandwich in much of a performance between this fattest of fat parts, Bette Davis, hair up, neuroses gone, is excellent as Woolley's lovesick secretary. Miss Sheridan, without benefit of any noticeable direction, looks as lovely, acts as badly as usual. Jimmy Durante, as himself; Billie Burke and Grant Mitchell, as the insulted and injured hosts; Reginald Gardiner, as Noel Coward, are tops...
...Presidential secretary, Meissner "served as a kind of second memory to the Chief of State," whose own memory tended more & more to wander. Once a Reichstag member strolled into the President's office, munching a sandwich. He put the sandwich wrapper on the table. "My God," shouted Meissner, "get that paper off the table before the Old Gentleman comes in here and signs...