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"Robert," she said, in a low, anxious tone, "do you think that that there can be anything in it?" "Have you lost your head, Naida?" the man laughed. "The age of miracles has passed." "But he is so sure," she whispered. "Poppycock!" said her companion contemptuously.
Such talk is not nice, Leon an affair!" "Love-affair poppycock!" said Leon Kantor, lifting his mother's face and kissing her on eyes about ready to tear. "Why, I've got something, ma, right here in my heart for you that " "Leon, be careful your shirt-front!" "That's so so what you call 'tender, for my best sweetheart that I Oh, love-affair poppycock!" She would not let her tears come.
But I certainly am criticizing the systems in which the free and fluid motivation of independent labor is to be replaced by cooked-up wage-scales and minimum salaries and government commissions and labor federations and all that poppycock. "What is not generally understood is that this whole industrial matter isn't a question of economics.
"They're all soft again," he said dolefully. "Keep 'em that way for the next few years, while you're getting your education. You can harden 'em up after." "Ye-es, I suppose so," was the reply, in no delighted voice. "It rests with you, Harve. You can take cover behind your mama, of course, and put her on to fussing about your nerves and your high-strungness and all that kind of poppycock."
Peter Briggs hoped he would dare to call it "poppycock" in the presence of his master for he was thoroughly sick of being a sleuth in the ill-smelling Eleventh Ward. He did dare to call it poppycock. And Colonel Dodd shrugged his shoulders and forgot one Walker Farr. The fellow seemed inconsiderable and Colonel Dodd found other matters very pressing.
Inaccuracy, provincialism, and a too hasty rushing to conclusions, were the rocks that he had split on, but he got his revenge when he said: "How would I play with you? From all the poppycock Anglice bosh you talked about poker, I'd ha' played a straight game, and skinned you. I wouldn't have taken the trouble to make you drunk.
Such talk is not nice, Leon an affair!" "Love-affair poppycock!" said Leon Kantor, lifting his mothers face and kissing her on eyes about ready to tear. "Why, I've got something, ma, right here in my heart for you that " "Leon, be careful your shirt-front!" "That's so so what you call 'tender, for my best sweetheart that I oh, love affair poppycock!" She would not let her tears come.
Fwhy shud I kape a dog an' du me own barkin'? An' thin he'll think betther av ut an' chunt 'Poppycock, all poppycock! . . . As you were, Sarjint' an' thin he'll call in Kilbride. Eh! fwhat yez laughin' at, yeh fules?" he queried irritably.
These are merely and only that he is to follow Hanlon, keeping a few steps behind him, and mentally will the blindfolded man to go in the right direction to find the hidden knife." "Isn't it wonderful, Sanford," breathed Miss Abby, her eyes shining with the delight of the mystery. "Poppycock!" and Embury smiled at her as a gullible child.
They would have left Badinguet on the throne EXPRESSLY to make peace, ready to put him in the galleys afterward. If they had known more, they would have known what the volunteers of '92 were and the retreat of Brunswick gained by bribery through Danton and Westermann. But no! always the same old story! always poppycock! There is now the Commune of Paris which is returning to the real Middle Ages!
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