Word: ashtray
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there were iron deer on U. S. lawns, lending the last touch of grandeur to the fancy wooden scrollwork of the mansions behind them. Every home that could afford one had a "den," with leather armchair, pennants on the wall, an ashtray shaped like a skull. Lucky theatre-goers saw Ben Hur, with real horses racing madly on a treadmill track. Cars were called "au-to-mo-biles," 25 miles an hour was a devilish pace, a puncture a major accident. Against such a 1904 backdrop, Author Brinig this week published a lengthy (570-page) tale that covered...
...Reis (pronounced "Rice"), who wanted a fast runabout for his Lake George summer home, bought her in 1925, renamed her for the reptile which he considers so lucky that he uses a large stuffed one with a hole in its back on his library desk for an ashtray. In 1931, after he built El Lagartito for the Gold Cup race, Driver Reis began to tinker with El Lagarto and the Packard motor with which he had replaced her original power plant in 1925. He had her bottom "shingled," to make her ride high in the water instead of cutting through...
...strangest sporting trophies in the world. It was originally put up by England's Lord Stanley in 1893 for the amateur hockey championship of Canada. Since 1908 it has been emblematic of the world's professional championship. It cost $50. It looks like an ashtray on an obelisk. The cup itself, battered by travel and rough usage, long ago became too small to hold the names of all the teams that have won it. Ten 2-in. rings of silver have been added to its original base to make more room for the names of the players...
...with a billiard parlor in Manhattan. In Chicago last week he won his divorce after displaying a bruise on his forehead caused, he said, by an ashtray hurled by Princess Nai Tai Ta. Golf in the Dark...
...tutor fingered an ashtray which was decorated with the Icelandic arms, and spoke easy confidence. The tutees tried to look wise as two old cats, an effect unachieved, for the one seemed slightly draggled be recent revels, and the other played nervously with a cigarette. "The lay of Hildebrand," said the hierophant, "survives only because two monks broke their vows of obedience. To stamp out paganism the Church had ordered all vernacular writings destroyed. It succeeded very well, for it used conquest to extend its influence, or, in failing that, it converted a Germanic chieftain by offering him a plump...