Word: tray
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editorial was duly printed. Everywhere in the midwest people read it and groaned for the passing of manhood, seduced by the perfumed ways of a cinema fop. Over a hotel breakfast tray a closely muscled man, whose sombre skin was clouded with talcum and whose thick wrists tinkled with a perpetual arpeggio of fine gold bangles, read the effusion with rapidly mounting fury. Then he (Rudolph Valentino) wrote out and mailed to the Chicago Tribune editor a formal note. He said that he infinitely regretted that American statutes made illegal the honorable and historic duello. But he felt happy...
...wedding presents were not listed for publication, and only a few intimate friends were allowed to see them. A few, however, are known: the Cabinet sent a huge silver tray, appropriately inscribed; lace, silver and handsomely bound books there were in profusion; Ambassador Esme Howard sent a rare and handsome edition of Don Quixote...
...American people. Even those of us who submit most tamely to the ignominy of self-service feel vaguely alarmed at the increasingly rapid disappearance of the waiter from our modern times. Obviously something must be done about it; and as we slop coffee over an ill-balanced tray we wonder what...
...weeks adorned the President's desk was steadily being denuded of its contents, noted the presence of a wooden bear with jointed limbs on the desk, a nickel-plated key to a hospital city, a seashell, and a model electric locomotive* a row of reference books, an ash tray, which usually . . . has in it six or more white paper cigar holders, with quill mouth pieces, 'a matutinal bouquet, a pencil rack with ten sharpened pencils, a row of mother-of-pearl push buttons. Another found that the President never took off his suit coat while at work...
...During President Harding's regime, desk trinkets included: an ash tray on which stood a miniature Scotch golfer in knickers with two life-sized golf bal's at his feet, samples of shingles, little cowbells, a picture of his mother...