Word: sandwiches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sights some fishing smacks. Diving to 50 ft., he throttles his motor and yells: "Which way is Ireland?" He gets no answer, but within an hour he is over the Irish coast. Then come the Cornish cliffs of England, the Channel, the coast of France. Hungry, he munches a sandwich, first food in 33 hours, slakes his dry throat from the still half-filled canteen. It's nearly 10 p.m.; the lights of Paris come into view, and five miles away, the floodlights of Le Bourget Field. Lindbergh toys with the idea of flying on to Rome...
Life Can Be Beautiful (sponsor: Tide, a detergent) is not radio's oldest daytime serial,* but, if only for its title, it has often been taken as the epitome of the "kind of sandwich" once described by James Thurber: "Between thick slices of advertising, spread twelve minutes of dialogue, add predicament, villainy and female suffering in equal measure, throw in a dash of nobility, sprinkle with tears, season with organ music, cover with a rich announcer sauce, and serve five times a week." Actually, Elsie Beebe ranges less frequently over the tearstained world of suffering women than many...
...that each classroom would open directly outside. They used cherry red brick both inside & out, painted window trims bright yellow, built paved spaces outside of primary rooms for outdoor teaching. Said the Atlanta Constitution when the school opened: "Not a gargoyle in sight . . . The end of the peanut-butter sandwich...
...reason sales of one toothpaste boomed in Lima, Peru while toothbrush sales sagged was that natives were eating the paste as candy. In South Africa, a sudden liking for a hairdressing was due to natives' using it as a sandwich spread...
...partnership, liked his work and did it well when the office was not too rushed. But on the busiest days, his partners complained, just when they needed him most, he had to lie down in the afternoon. It turned out that on those days he had a cheese sandwich and a malted milk sent into the office, whereas on normal days he ate a lunch free of milk products and drank black coffee. The cheese was knocking...