Word: sandwichman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burlesque is the sudden meteoric pace it strikes when Mr. Baxter starts his comeback. The situation at this point is Baxter down & out, with Alice Faye, lead in his old burlesque show, seeking a way to help him without making herself known. She and Jack Oakie hire a sandwichman to impersonate a millionaire and finance Baxter's Broadway show with her money...
Patrick Balfour stepped from his train into London one dull, grey morning, stopped to read a sandwichman's sign: "To India by Rolls-Royce car for ?34." A Scot who could trace his ancestors to Robert the Bruce, Patrick Balfour knew that there must be a catch in it somewhere. Nevertheless two weeks later he was on his way to the Far East, traveling with strangers in two old automobiles...
Sirs: Your Joplin correspondent (TIME, May 4) appears to think that I am undignified-or worse -in having the make, price and my name and endorsement painted on the side of my car. To him I am a "motorized sandwichman." I am a stockholder in the Hudson Motor Car Co., makers of my $595 Essex, and as a stockholder I am playing my part in endeavoring to sell their product, which is also, as a stockholder, mine. Maybe that's undignified-but if all stockholders of all companies were salesmen for their products, maybe we would have less unemployment...
Last week Barney Oldfield, onetime auto-racer, revisited Joplin. Driving a small standard coupe with its bargain price painted cheaply on the side, he raced neither against time nor more vulnerable competition, a kind of motorized sandwichman. Arriving at the local agency of the motorcar manufacturer, he was greeted by two auto salesmen and two small boys, sons of employes of the firm. Their requests for Oldfield autographs were the only echo of the clamoring crowd of 25 years...
Aaron Reuben, famed Manhattan sandwichman, sold his oldtime restaurant on upper Broadway ("Reuben's?That's All") but pledged himself to continue his establishment, still popular after midnight, on Madison Avenue; his Philadelphia restaurant on South Broad Street...