arms-folding

Updated: August 29, 2026

If you had seen the way in which I brought down my hand upon the table, minding neither muscle nor mahogany, you would know how people at a distance, especially if they have ever lived in New York, feel about it. I hope he will pay you well. I wish he would take out some of your rich, stupid, arms-folding, purse-clutching millionnaires into Washington Square and flay them alive.

Orville Dewey - Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D.: Edited by his Daughter