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...often pleasant, during a session in Widener, to stare at women or books or similar objects placed there for the convenience of the student. One's glance is occasionally interrupted, however, by an ashtray in a line with the object...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STICKY | 5/25/1957 | See Source »

...Curtice, a tidy cigarette smoker, uses the brass goboon as a floor ashtray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

Relief Pitcher. In Norwalk, Calif., William J. Pivar was booked on a charge of malicious mischief after he threw an ashtray through a police-station window, told the cops who came out and arrested him: "I feel better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 21, 1955 | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...They didn't need no ashtray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to the Riffraff | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...With her ashtray complex working overtime, Suzy makes a bachelor girl's flat out of an abandoned 16-ft. boiler and starts slinging ham & eggs at the local hash house. Just when the matchmaking plans appear to be spiked. Cannery Row focuses its cloudy mind long enough to bring the two lovers together by an action as silly as it is surprising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to the Riffraff | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

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