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...with , trepidatant that one attempts to express via the printed word and still more particularly via a daily newspaper any appreciation of beauty. Recriminations are too easy and accusations too ready; even now the words of the colored gentlemen, to the effect that "they are SO soft" ring in journalistic ears...
...sent him to give her a physical examination. She submitted to it. Said the man: "Your circulation is very poor. I'm afraid you'll have to take an extra hot bath before I can make a thoroughly satisfactory examination." Mrs. Sagerman hid her $1,000 engagement ring and $19.40 under a pillow. When she came from the bath, money, ring & doctor were gone. "He was a fake!" cried she angrily to police. Other Bronx women, made bold by her complaint, admitted that the rascal had duped them similarly...
...crowd. . . . 'Thank you,' he said. 'Thank you.' Oh, the dirty bastards. ... As he tripped on a cushion he felt the horn go into him. . . . "He looked at the bull going down slowly over on his side, then suddenly four feet in the air. . . . They carried him across the ring to the infirmary. ... To hell with this operating table. He'd been on plenty of operating tables before. He was not going to die. There would be a priest if he was going to die." The Killers is about two men who go into a restaurant to shoot Ole Anderson. First...
...woman had no business to attempt such a flight. It was perfectly ridiculous to read of this young person's chatter, of her preparations for the event?her vanity bag, Chinese ring, knickers, black and red four-in-hand tie and pastel-shaded band over dark brown hair?and to remember that she was going to risk her life just to gratify her stupid vanity...
...style is smooth and easy, characters are definitely drawn and not difficult to recognise. Perhaps the book's highest virtue is the conversation. There is nothing profound or intellectual about it, but it does ring true and sound natural...