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Updated: May 11, 2025
I caught that turn and about every other in the deal; split him in half on the last card, and from that on I ripped him up the back and knocked chunks off'n him until everybody got interested. "The game grew too small for both of us. I had four hundred dollars in checks before me, and my original collar-button. I asked him for his limit.
After ablutions, he found his wet hair plastic, and easily obtained the long, even sweep backward from the brow, lacking which no male person, unless bald, fulfilled his definition of a man of the world. But there ensued a period of vehemence and activity caused by a bent collar-button, which went on strike with a desperation that was downright savage.
Anything may be bought here, from a collar-button to a tin of meat, from perfumery to a shirt, anything, and sometimes even the very thing one wants. We provide for the necessities of life for the next month or two, hand over our mail and end our visit with a drink.
Saying which, he clips the end off of a fat black perfecto, lights up, and tackles the mornin' mail. It was a case of local thunderstorms on the seventeenth floor of the Corrugated Trust Building. To state it simpler, Old Hickory was runnin' a neck temperature of 210 or so, and there was no tellin' what minute he might fuse a collar-button or blow out a cylinder-head.
"What's that f'r?" Mr. Hennessy asked. "It's a Scotch game," said Mr. Dooley, with a wave of his hand. "I wonder how it come out to-day. Here's th' pa-aper. Let me see. McKinley at Canton. Still there. He niver cared to wandher fr'm his own fireside. Collar-button men f'r th' goold standard. Statues iv Heidelback, Ickleheimer an' Company to be erected in Washington.
So proficient was he in his Greek that some of the students facetiously called him Socrates, and some still more facetious even termed him Soc. I am sure, Mr. Phelps, you have been in college a sufficient length of time to apprehend the frolicsome nature of some of the students here." "I certainly have," Will remarked with a smile, recalling his own compulsory collar-button race. "I fawncied so.
When I am tidy I am stiff as a poker. Clara laughed, and, having fastened the refractory collar-button, bent her stately head, and gave her sister a kiss. 'Don't attempt to be too tidy, it will spoil your individuality. "They were two sisters of one race, She was the fairest in the face,"
"You men are wearing the same buttons your great-grandfathers wore. Don't you want to get out of collar slavery? Don't you want to quit working your face all out of shape struggling with a collar-button? Now as this is a manufacturing demonstration " On a warm evening nothing is more pleasant than a ride on the front platform of the Market Street L, with the front door open.
The traveling public kicks if they get bum service, and the help kick if you demand any service from 'em, and the boss gets it right in the collar-button both ways from the ace." "Well, I'm going to tell you how to have trained service and how to make your hotels distinctive.
Using a shoe-horn as a lever, he succeeded in bringing the little cap or head of the button into its proper plane, but, unfortunately, his final effort dislodged the cap from the rod between it and the base, and it flew off malignantly into space. Here was a calamity; few things are more useless than a decapitated collar-button, and William had no other.
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