Word: ashtrays
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Along the dreary road of social awareness are comfort stations offering comic relief to the weary. At WHER, an all-girl radio station in Memphis, there is an advertising saleswoman whose ashtray bears the well-worn lettering: "Long Time No He." In Welch, W. Va., there is a motel operator whose sideline is painting Fundamentalist road signs; his masterpiece reads...
...this unhandsome man is strange indeed. He squashes his cigarettes precisely in the face of a figure printed on the kitchen ashtray. When in a little romp on the lawn she knocks over a pile of wood he has corded, he bellows a curse. When she says she is going in town for groceries, he twists her arm. And when in prying into her desk drawers he finds a revolver, he caresses it with his huge hands and pockets...
...Full Ashtray. Ferraris are too popular; a Jaguar sedan is still O.K., but avoid Lincoln Continentals-press-agents drive them. Get an Aston-Martin. Renting a car is acceptable. Warren Beatty gets a new one whenever the ashtrays are full...
...several hours he rode, traversing mountain and valley, following deer trails and nudging his horse skillfully along rocky paths. Occasionally, he crunched out a cigarette on a heavy leather glove worn as a horseback ashtray, or reined his mount to a halt and gazed out over the green valleys below...
...long-haired blonde in the front seat, only to find that she is an Afghan hound, not a mademoiselle. In a nightclub he sets off a chain reaction when he borrows a cigarette lighter from a girl, discovers it is a lipstick, puts it down on an ashtray; the man at the next table thinks it is a cigar, gets lipstick on his mouth, is slapped by his girl friend...