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...agility, such accurate comprehension and sure mental retention that, come term end, he?unlike his classmates?is guilty of no shuddering before the looming shadow of examinations. He is different from the class "grind," who labors long and alone. Different too from the versatile class organizers and politicians, who sandwich fairly able academic work into the tiny crevices left between running their newspapers and student government boards, winning votes, signing petitions, leading cheers, etc. He is called the "flash," the "whiz," the "shark," the man who can, with little visible effort, rip and rend the more indigestible portions...
...once obtained publicity by purchasing the services of some penurious gentleman, shaving his head, and seating him, haughtily tailored, in some famed cabaret, with a blurb for the show tattooed upon his naked poll. Last week a bouillon company evolved a sleight even more alarming. An army of ragged sandwich men was sent into the streets, armed with bundles of red feathers upon which the name of the product was printed in black. Each feather had a hook. The sandwich men hooked them to the backs of passersby...
...Ribald sandwich men prowled after dainty women, hooked their leering quills into the backs of afternoon frocks, tailored coats. Red feathers depended from Deputies coattails; .gamins snickered and the deputies, the fine ladies, not seeing the joke, snickered also...
Another week went by at Atlantic City (TIME, July 20, 27) and the anthracite coal miners and operators managed to sandwich in four sessions of conference. They have until Aug. 31 (when the present wage contract expires) in which to come to an agreement on wages after that date. Otherwise a strike is in prospect...
...papers might well be entitled "A Discourse upon the Corruption of Raincoats at Harvard University," and he could doubtless afford his readers no little diversion by describing a rainy night in Cambridge, and the students, who, happy in the consciousness of having made themselves conspicuous, parade the streets like sandwich men, bearing on their proud backs mottoes, initials, bleeding hearts, crimson "H's", and portraits of pretty ladies...