facing-hammer

Updated: May 7, 2025

Decency died out when you exchanged the pick and facing-hammer for the glass and muddler. Decency! Pah! How you talk! As if it were any more decent to sell rum than to drink it." There was so much of biting contempt in the tones, as well as the words of the half-intoxicated man, that Slade, who had himself been drinking rather more freely than usual, was angered beyond self-control.

T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur - Ten Nights in a Bar Room