He asked me to ask you to ask somebody named Boylan, a billsticker, to give him a job as a sandwichman. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Boylan, a billsticker, to give him a job as a sandwichman. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Wandered without money over Europe, and was a sandwichman in London. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
I'll hire a sandwichman to stop people in the street and tell it to them. From Wordnik.com. [Here are Ladies] Reference
Mr Hearst's journals, here it is clearly used in the same hope which inspires the sandwichman to carry on his front the classic legend. From Wordnik.com. [American Sketches 1908] Reference
Mendicancy: that of the fraudulent bankrupt with negligible assets paying 1s. 4d. in the pound, sandwichman, distributor of throwaways, nocturnal vagrant, insinuating sycophant, maimed sailor, blind stripling, superannuated bailiffs man, marfeast, lickplate, spoilsport, pickthank, eccentric public laughingstock seated on bench of public park under discarded perforated umbrella. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
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