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...PEACE Record Sandwich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Record Sandwich | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...most extraordinary and most typically British characters that Alice met on the other side of the looking glass was the White Knight. To be prepared for "everything" he carried not only tin armor and a helmet, but also a sandwich box, a mousetrap, fire-irons, carrots, a beehive; and his horse was equipped with anti-sharkbite anklets. Great Britain was last week compared to the White Knight by more than one Briton, and the parallel was just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wolf! Wolf! | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Empire. Last week a few signs suggested that the stream was. changing its course. The solitary sandwich man bearing a banner reading "Churchill" who bumped into Prime Minister Chamberlain on his way to Parliament, the newspaper articles written by journalists who admired his style, the exasperated middle class outraged at too much muddling-these scarcely loomed big enough to conquer Mr. Chamberlain's hostility, the lack of confidence of the people. Bigger news was that last week's staggering events clarified in a stroke Churchill's concept of the Empire, made understandable what had been puzzling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vision, Vindication | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Remo, Italy, Maria Piombo, 39, stalked up and down swank Empress Boulevard wearing a sandwich board which read: "I want a husband, even a used one." Arrested, she admitted that she only wanted to embarrass a man who had jilted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Joachie Hubert, an unemployed Manhattan waiter, believes that a child who steals should be ruthlessly punished. When his 12-year-old son, Joachie Jr., stole $3 from his mother's purse, Joachie Hubert hung a sandwich sign over his son's shoulders, marched with him to school. The sign said: I AM A THIEF. I STOLE MY MOTHER'S MONEY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Father and Son | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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