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She was of a pronounced American type, coarse, vulgar, strident-voiced, smart, with a shrewdly working brain and of an unimpeachable heart. She was generosity and honesty itself, as she looked at the two men in a similar strait to the one from which she had extricated herself. The other man, who had a bitter, possibly a dangerous strain developed by his misfortunes, laughed sardonically.
While he walked, he practiced the strident-voiced delivery of extravagant lies he had learned so well and had so magnificently imitated from the Ventura Boulevard pitch artists. He practiced the leering insinuendo of the barker outside the gambling hall; he gave it the Calsobisidine con come-on; he sold it solid, dripping with sex, twitching with lure.
Hildreth and I were pictured as living on frost fish almost entirely; the fish that run along the ocean shore, and, growing numb with the cold of autumn, are tossed up on the sand by the waves.... I was depicted as strident-voiced ... belligerent ... waving my arms wildly.
Reading him was like being in church with a strident-voiced preacher shouting from out of a terribly sonorous pulpit.
If you had asked any of those sewing circle ladies about it, they would have said "to a man!" that Mrs. Marvin Petrie suggested Poketown's "Clean-Up Day." And they would have been honest in their belief. For Janice Day was no strident-voiced reformer.
Reading him was like being in church with a strident-voiced preacher shouting from out of a terribly sonorous pulpit. "Les Orientales."
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