United States or Taiwan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Of course she's some old blowzy with frumpled hair trying to rope in a greenhorn with a string of words and phrases," concluded Jack, carelessly, who had an equally cynical distrust of the sex and of literature. "That's about what I told him," said the editor. "That's just what you SHOULDN'T have told him," returned Jack. "You ought to have stuck up for that woman as if she'd been your own mother.
But ere the yard can be run up to the masthead, there comes a whizzing, booming sound and it is caught in the bolas! The mast is struck too, and the balls, whirling around and around, lash it and the yard together, with the frumpled canvas between, as tight as a spliced spar! And now dismay fills the hearts of the boat's people: all chance of escape seems gone.
Immediately the great, disheveled table, brilliantly littered with crystal, frumpled napkins, and a great centerpiece of fruits and flowers, was in the confusion of disorganization. Daughters-in-law and husbands moved up toward a pair of doors swung heavily backward by two servants. Mrs. Isadore Meyerburg pushed her real-lace bodice into place and adjusted the glittering lizard.
Word Of The Day