Liz spends most mornings here spinning clay into pots and teacups and dessert plates.

NEWYORKER: Playdate

But what did Auden know, padding around in filthy carpet slippers, filling teacups with cigarette butts?

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At the Joud store in Cairo, distinct images are repeated on mugs, glasses, teacups, trays, jewelry boxes, pillows and coasters.

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The wilder elements conducted public smashings of teacups besmirched by sugar, but most abstainers tried to make their point more politely.

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Price rattled teacups by advocating glamour stocks.

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They sipped coffee from white porcelain teacups.

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Premier Exhibitions is cashing in on the centennial of the Titanic disaster with an April auction to offload some 5, 500 artifacts raised from the wreck, everything from chunks of the ship's hull to White Star Line teacups and passengers' possessions.

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