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Skeptics, marveling that they had been (permitted to read of this happening, took a vow never to order a sandwich in the Automat, reformed their former low opinion of the honesty of the U. S. press. "There is a big advertiser † gone," they said, wagging their heads...
This item related how a woman, Katherine Puree by name, had entered an Automat, procured a sandwich, eaten the first half of it with impunity. As she began to chew the second half, she felt something in her mouth that seemed to be moving, independent of the action of her teeth and tongue. She screamed, spat vehemently, alarming many nearby customers of the Horn & Hardart Co. When the object she ejected passed her lips it bit her, causing her lip to bleed. A curious insect -or reptile -about a quarter of an inch long, badly mangled by Miss Puree...
There was a political auction, as advertised by sandwich men before dinner in the reception room. "The greatest collection of electoral remnants in history" was offered by a hoarse man in swallow-tailed grandeur and a sagging red waistcoat. "The proceeds . . . will be used for charity. They will be donated to the Democratic National Committee...
...bars, lunchrooms, paddocks, wherever sportsmen gather, you see them-frayed bravos with cauliflower cars, rakish noses, thick necks, entreating eyes. They catch your glance, they wink, edge over. It is no drink that they want, no sandwich, no news about a pretty thing in the second race. They want to impart something. For these are the fallen kings of boxing,' they who have knocked out champions and never gotten credit for it, who have been champions and are forgotten. Will one of these sidling, loquacious ones ever be a huge brown Argentine with a mane like a privet hedge...
...believe that the quickest way to kill broadcasting would be to use it for direct advertising. The reader of the newspaper has an option whether he will read an ad or not, but if a speech by the President is to be used as the meat in a sandwich of two patent medicine advertisements, there will be no radio left...