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You can 'ave confidence in a man like that that's why 'e's gone an' retired; 'e's civilized, you see, the finished article; but all this raw material, this 'get-on' or 'get-out' lot, that's come from 'oo knows where, well, I wish they'd stayed there with their tell-you-how-to-do-it and their 'ymns of 'ate." "Joe," said Mr.
"I s'pose we'll have to call McKelvey 'Lord Chaz' from now on," said Sidney Finkelstein. "It beats all get-out," meditated that man of data, Howard Littlefield, "how hard it is for some people to get things straight. Here they call this fellow 'Lord Doak' when it ought to be 'Sir Gerald." Babbitt marvelled, "Is that a fact! Well, well! 'Sir Gerald, eh? That's what you call um, eh?
Everything these people had was carefully and finely made. An old culture, but a static one. Probably tradition-bound as all get-out.
"Stella Ballard it was tells me about the picnic, calling me in as I passed their house to show me her natty new riding togs that had just come from the mail-order house. She called from back of a curtain, and when I got into the parlour she had them on, pleased as all get-out.
If you're not in a hurry, though " "Not in the least. Go on as long as you like." "I met him there in the office of a real-estate man speculator, of course; everybody was, in Moffitt; but a first-rate fellow, and public-spirited as all get-out; and when Dryfoos left he told me about him.
You know what sometimes happens when a man gets a sudden revolutionary idea? He concentrates on it like all get-out. Then somebody else bursts into the newspapers with the same identical idea, which in turn brings out hordes of claims to the same idea by countless other people. It's no new thing to writers and such-like gentry.
But she knew now there was another side to him, a quality that was tigerish, that snarled like a wolf in battle. Why was it that men must be so? Old Dan chuckled. "Ain't he the lad? Stove up to beat all get-out. But I'd give a dollar Mex to see the other man. He's sure a pippin to see this glad mawnin'." Something of what was groping in her mind broke from Ruth into words.
She put out one hand that capable, reassuring hand and gripped his and held it a moment. It was queer and significant that it should be his hand that lay within hers. "Well, what in all get-out are you doing around here, Emma?" He tried to be jovial and easy. She turned to the aproned man with whom she had been dealing and smiled. "What am I doing here, Joe?" she said. Joe grinned, waggishly.
Good for you, Pearl I always said you were a smart girl, even when your people were as poor as get-out. I could see it in you but don't let it spoil you, Pearl and don't ever forget you are just a country girl. But I am certainly glad you did so well for your mother's sake many a time I was dead sorry for her having to work so hard! It's a comfort to her now to see you doin' so well.
No matter who the visitor is, he grabs Ogle's hand and yells: "Why, hello, Gibb, you fat old scoundrel, how's your sore foot?" Then we crowd around and fight for the next turn, and go home and hastily spread the news that So-and-so has come home big and prosperous as all get-out, and not spoiled a bit.
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