Word: utensil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sparse furniture seems made of human bones. But as the slow light comes up through the long narrative, it is made clear that the ribs on the wall are a hatrack, that the upended coffin is a wardrobe and the skull under the bed is a more commonplace utensil...
Restaurocracy. In Chicago, Restaurant Association President Tony Smith announced that in his own restaurant waitresses are now called "hostesses," the hostesses "food service directors.'' the busboys "table servicemen," the dishwashers "utensil maintenance...
...camera finds in the terminal, as in a giant utensil, a certain metal delight, but in almost every other respect Indiscretion is, for the gifted men who made it, an indiscretion indeed...
That once elegant and utile implement, the toothpick, passes from the scene in an ever-widening social circle. The massive, rounded hardwood utensil with which modern hostesses and bartenders spear canapes and Martini olives was never intended to explore dental apertures, although it might serve for a murder weapon in a pinch. Let Mr. Wenner, the perfectionist, find a modern name for this modern thing. But I warn him that "skewerette" is barred...