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Word: urn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press agent he is once ordered by his temperamental employer, a woman, to give a tea for the press. With misgivings he obeys. After the tea is over, this is what he sees : ''A beautiful Chinese urn had been smashed. A chair had been hurled through a studio window. Someone had danced on the polished floor with hobnails. There were nine burns from abandoned cigarets in the expensive rug. A drink had been spilled in the grand piano. Someone had left a lighted cigar on a mahogany side table. An entire bottle of ginger ale had been prankishly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hollywood Harlequinade | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

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