Word: ashli
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...middle of the living room there is a big table covered with oilcloth. On it are piled his manuscripts, books and papers; the children's toys; his wife's sewing, chipped teacups; dirty spoons, knives and forks; lamps, an inkwell, glasses, clay pipes, tobacco ash; in a word, it is the most indescribable muddle. . . . One's eyes are so blinded by coal and tobacco smoke that it is like walking around in a cave until one becomes accustomed to it and objects begin to loom up through the fog. . . . Sitting down is a dangerous business...
...Shrova Tuesday to you) came over from France in the old days, and now all kinds of parades, Nalls ("rety formal" says Miss Fennsbaker), and singing in the strects starts happening as early as Christmas time. The whole thing's to keep you going throught Lent, which starts today-Ash Wednesday-and everyone in New Orleans had to immask at tonight last night and head for church...
Also extended to the battle-scarred brethren was the privilege of dropping cigarette ash in the, typewriter mechanism and in general copying the editorial effort to look like a combination of Brit Reed and Hildy Johnson, Clark Kent as a prototype was no more...
Last week, the Constitution moved, lock, stock & stuffed duck from its cluttered, turreted brick building to a new, $1,500,000, streamlined, aluminum-trimmed plant. The new building was, roughly, Georgia-shaped. To prepare the staff for the shock of a clean newsroom with wastebaskets and ash trays, a quiet memo was issued: "We are going to have the desks dusted every night...
...Christmas drew near, the voices of carolers, not all of them blending harmoniously, were raised across the land. Office parties left a backwash of glasses and overflowing ash trays on desks and filing cabinets. In Boston, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals sent out three wagonloads of oats, carrots and apples for the city's work horses. Sweet but harassed rich girls prepared to make holiday debuts at Atlanta's Piedmont Driving Club, San Francisco's Palace Hotel, Baltimore's Alcazar, and in many another big-city ballroom. Boise, Idaho, a city...