Word: ashtray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...myself, with the permission of my doctor, I smoke about 30 Pall Malls a day, more than half of which smolder away in the ashtray as I work at my typewriter . , . Never felt better in the past 20 years...
...well as a diamond pin at $6,650. In its store at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street are private buying rooms, where rich clients can inspect $200,000 necklaces at their leisure. But a housewife can walk in off the avenue and buy a $3 teaspoon or a 50? ashtray...
...Wash, housewife who swept women's skiing honors at the winter Olympics last year, took a practical view of one of her trophies. "It's a lovely medal," she said thoughtfully, "but it's too heavy to wear and it won't make a good ashtray. What can you do with six ounces of pure gold...
...Last spring I did a piece about a split in the French Communist Party. I needed a slab of color to make the story live [Laguerre got quite a slab, including a scene in which Communist Jacques Duclos nervously knocked over an ashtray, crawled under the table after it]; but what I chiefly needed to write were big chunks of guidance. It was an unusual story, going against the notions of TIME readers and TIME editors, who have seen so much evidence of Communist discipline and solidarity that they would find it hard to believe in the split...
Along the way, Maloney sketches a few remembered glimpses of Ross at work. At the "art meeting" where the New Yorker's famed cartoons are bought, there is a pad, pencil, ashtray and knitting needle at each place-the last "for pointing at faulty details in pictures. Ross rejects pictures firmly and rapidly, perhaps one every ten seconds. 'Nah . . . nah . . . nah.' . . . Now and then Ross gets lost in the intricacies of perspective. 'Where am / supposed to be?' he will unhappily inquire. ... If nobody can say exactly where Ross is supposed to be, out the picture...