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"Z-z-z-zing!" says I. "That puts a crimp in the ready-made dinner business, I expect." "Not at all," says Vee. "Until he comes back, after the war, Marion is going to carry on." "Anyway," says I, "it ends 'Puffy' Biggies as an impendin' tragedy, don't it? And I expect that's worth while, too."
I've found out it's a mighty nice thing to be able to say you're a B.A. Some client that doesn't know what you are and thinks you're just a plug business man, he gets to shooting off his mouth about economics or literature or foreign trade conditions, and you just ease in something like, 'When I was in college course I got my B.A. in sociology and all that junk Oh, it puts an awful crimp in their style!
I'm going to the game, and when the Siwash team comes out I'm going to get up and give as near a correct imitation of a Roman mob and a Polish riot as my throat will stand; and if we put a crimp in the large-footed, humpy-shouldered behemoths we're going up against this afternoon, I'm going out to-night and burn the City Hall. Any Siwash man who is a gentleman would do it.
Cleopatra did not set sail on the Nile in more state and beauty than that in which our young American bride is often ushered into her new home, her wardrobe all gossamer lace and quaint frill and crimp and embroidery, her house a museum of elegant and costly gewgaws, and, amid the whole collection of elegancies and fragilities, she, perhaps, the frailest. Then comes the tug of war.
Mallory to-night, you'll be called up to-morrow to hear some Russian language that'll take all the crimp out of that Robert Mantell bang of yours. Now ring up one of them bench-warmers and show us the Baron!" But, say, you might's well try bluffin' your way through the fire lines on a brass trunk check, "You'll find the manager's office two doors to the left, gentlemen," says he.
But to think that you'd come back here to get the lifeblood of Stoddard and then go to buying Navajoa! Why not? Why, you might as well be a mosquito for all the harm you will do. A grown man like you Rimrock Jones, the copper king fighting Stoddard through Navajoa!" "Well, why not?" defended Rimrock. "Didn't I put a crimp in him? Didn't I double my money on the deal?" "Yes, but why Navajoa?
I hazarded. It was my last card, and I let it go with a sigh. She pointed a slim, scornful finger at the brand on Shylock's shoulder. "If you are in doubt of the way, Mr. Carleton, your horse will take you home if you give him his head." That put a crimp in me worse than the look of her eyes, even. I stared at her a minute, and then laughed right out.
When she saw me she gave a scream and threw herself against a door hung with a curtain of Tyrian dye. I groped my way as well as I might to my own chamber: where each hour the clocks, as they struck, found an echo in the apprehensive heart of LETTER: From Montague Tigg, Esq., to Mr. David Crimp.
Bullock, a few of the men, and two or three of the boys, piped out an hurrah, in compliment to this speech of the Corporal's: but it was remarked that the greater part of the crowd drew back the women whispering ominously to them and looking at the Corporal. "I see, ladies, what it is," said he. "You are frightened, and think I am a crimp come to steal your sweethearts away.
They kept fires burning all night to scare him out uh the coulee, and they're going to break camp to-day and hike for home. They say he give a screech that'd put a crimp in the devil himself, and went galloping off, jumping about twenty feet at a lick. And " "Aw, gwan!" protested Happy Jack, feebly. "So help me Josephine, it's the truth," abetted Pink, round-eyed and unmistakably in earnest.
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