"He's a foreign-looking guy with thinnish black hair and a meaty sort of pan."
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1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 121:
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Dave and I have parted company, and I hope I never see his junky pan again.
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1993, William S. Burroughs, edited by Oliver Harris, The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945–1959, New York: Penguin, →ISBN, page 92:
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This was the kind of operator who would tell you to be there at nine sharp and if you weren't sitting quietly with a pleased smile on your pan when he floated in two hours later on a double Gibson, he would have a paroxysm of outraged executive ability […].
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1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 103: