Word: ashtrays
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...Once, when I was a kid. I made an ashtray for my old man and old lady...
...Take your places, take your places," urged Acting Subcommittee Chairman Karl Mundt, rapping sharply for order with a glass ashtray (Capitol police had removed the brown china ashtrays inscribed "If it's American, it's worth protecting'' which had been placed around the table by an enterprising high-tariff lobbyist). After delivering himself of a windy, 1,800-word speech on the problems and aims of the hearings, Mundt called for the first witness-and at that precise point. Joe McCarthy made his first move. Pulling his microphone close to him he objected strenuously...
...record company and cutting some songs with the star of a rival network-ABC's Don (Breakfast Club) McNeill. "It's like being married to a woman for 20 years," said Godfrey mournfully, "and then coming home and finding a cigar butt in the ashtray...
Architect László designs his houses down to the last ashtray or built-in Kleenex holder. He protests that money is not everything: "One million dollars will not build the perfect house. You somehow can't put everything you want into it. It's largely a matter of taste, judgment and talent." But money helps...
Where does the feeling come from? Braque picked up a studio ashtray. "It's dead," he said. "But all I have to do is look at it in a certain way . . . You just sort of project a magic ray on to an object, and bring it into the enchanted circle...