Word: sandwiched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...police, reassured that they had found their man, spirited Hearst Correspondent Horan off to jail and grilled him for seven hours. They refused him a lawyer, refused to let him telephone, and only grudgingly allowed him to send out for a sandwich and what Mr. Horan later described as "a bottle of water." Over and over and over the Agents asked him how and from whom he obtained the secret details of the new Anglo-French naval agreement (TIME, Aug. 13 et seq.), first scooped and published throughout the U. S. by Hearst newspapers...
...from a former editor stating (we hope not ambiguously), 'Your work was unbelievable.' To this we may add that he gave the best back view of a city newsman ever presented in a ten-line part and in a five-minute big emotional scene with a ham sandwich...
Died. J. Randolph Coolidge, 66, famed Boston architect (Coolidge & Carlson), onetime president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce; after a short illness; at Center Sandwich...
Lights of New York, first seven-reel all-talkie, is made by Vitaphone (Warner Brothers). It was undoubtedly put together in a hurry; but as an experiment, like the first hot-dog sandwich, it is a palpable hit. The story concerns a young man and a girl who left a small town to seek Manhattan fortune. The girl dances in a nightclub. The proprietor makes advances. The young man is forced into the bootlegging business, though he would rather be a barber. It ends, after several murders, with a philosophical detective advising the young couple to go back...
...travel in the U. S. is soon to emerge from the spasmodic era of the thermos bottle, the cheese sandwich and the leather jacket. Passengers' safety and comfort are, above all else, to command the attention of the newly formed Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc., which announced its plans last week. It will put into operation, within six months or a year, a 48-hour train & plane service between Manhattan and Los Angeles...