Word: sandwiches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...CYPRESS - Agatha Christie- Dodd, Mead ($2). Hercule Poirot bends his egg-shaped head to freeing Elinor Carlisle, accused of murdering the lodge-keeper's fetching daughter with a fishpaste sandwich. Good smooth Poirot...
...careful reading of the passages in the book dealing with Captain Cook's death leads to the inference that the natives of the Sandwich Islands were cannibals, but Van Loon is careful not to make the specific charge...
...Hawaii feel that the review (TIME, July 8) of Hendrik Willem Van Loon's volume, The Story of the Pacific, does a rank injustice to the people of these Islands, once known as the Sandwich Isles, and to their forefathers...
...Says Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon to TIME: "It's you who are in Dutch, not me." But though he did not mention cannibalism, Author Van Loon believes that, like other primitive peoples, the Sandwich Islanders customarily ate the heart, liver and eyes of people whom they killed, did so to Captain Cook. Reason: thereby they hoped to gain the virtues of their victims...
Mornings Witnesses spread themselves through the city according to prearranged plans. So efficiently did they space their posses that dazed Detroiters thought the city had been taken by storm. Witnesses wore sandwich signs, brandished placards, sowed handbills and pamphlets everywhere. Phonograph-toting canvassers claimed "hundreds of converts...