Word: sandwich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eustis Dearborn, of Sandwich...
...causing the sun to become dark on the day he is to be executed, a feat which he announces after consulting his pocket almanac. The Yankee organizes factories in which modern appliances are turned out for the use of medieval people and sends the knights out riding with sandwich boards slung over their armor advertising corn cure, liver pills. fountain pens...
...which had been misty, brightened before the trippers opened their sandwich baskets. On a barge moored in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal near Valentine's Brook, the Duke of Westminster and his friends quaffed scotch & soda. They were watched, from the Royal stand built several years ago for the Prince of Wales, by a wide-eyed group of Swedish excursionists. The grandstand and enclosure were nearly filled toward noon, when an agitated hare came humping down the home stretch, crossed the finish line and dodged into the paddock...
Between these two allusions (a sort of Royal sandwich) was the meat?typical Edward of Wales' meat; sound and salty words he had probably written himself...
Last week through Manhattan deployed a corps of false-bearded "sandwich" men. Blared their boards: BUY JUDGE AND HELP ME WORK MY WAY THROUGH COLLEGE...