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Updated: June 23, 2025
"Now see here " Merriam, his yarn cut off, made conventional objections, meanwhile provocatively filling his guest's glass with a high-ball that should have been sipped through ten minutes. But at Gloria's annoyed "We really must!" Anthony drank it off, got to his feet and made an elaborate bow to his hostess. "It seems we 'must," he said, with little grace.
"Now, in those days and I guess it's the same now when a man was up there to bunt, the pitcher would try to keep the ball high and tight. Well, it so happened that Red was a high-ball hitter. Howie Camnitz was pitching for Pittsburgh. He wound up and in came the ball, shoulder high. Murray took a terrific cut at it and the ball went over the left-field fence.
The American gang running the railroad down there used to charge what they pleased in those days, and Cogan had a sympathy for anybody that bucked them he'd had to pay eight dollars gold for a run to Panama and back himself and he and the grand duke got chummy and looked the town over together; but not much to look at, and this evening they drifted into this place the Russian taking a high-ball and Cogan another ginger ale to have an excuse to hang around and see what was doing.
When Sam had left, which he did rather in the manner of a heavy father in melodrama, shaking the dust of an erring son's threshold off his feet, I mixed myself a high-ball, and sat down to consider the position of affairs. It did not take me long to see that the infernal boy had double-crossed me with a smooth effectiveness which Mr Fisher himself might have envied.
The four men busy over their daily game of solo might have been at ease in their own club. At one end of the long car two young men dawdled in languid comfort, their bodies sprawling loosely in two big, soft arm-chairs, a tray with a couple of half-emptied high-ball glasses upon the table between them.
The same people, the same talk, the same food, the same days filled with the same silly things that took all my time and gave me nothing." "How long had you been feeling like that?" "I don't know. Ever since the war, I suppose. I just got to thinking " Her voice trailed off. "I have some of Chris's Scotch, if you want a high-ball." "Thanks, no. Audrey, do you hear from Chris?" "Yes.
As he did so he was hailed by a group of friends who were returning to their cards, waiting face downward on the small tables in the smoking-room. "Behold His Nibs!" shouted Glass, the actor, "the luckiest duffer that ever hit a high-ball!" "How did you happen to do it?" cried another. Reynolds lifted his hand to his bewildered head. "Do what?" he asked dully. "I'm not on."
Only for a brief moment every day in the warmth and renewed life of a first high-ball did his mind turn to those opalescent dreams of future pleasure the mutual heritage of the happy and the damned. But this was only for a little while.
It read thus: "The Earl took a Scotch high-ball, his hat, his departure, no notice of his pursuers, a revolver out of his hip pocket, and finally, his life." Even the excessive politeness of some men may be explained on purely practical grounds. Of a certain suburbanite, a friend said: "I heard him speaking most beautifully of his wife to another lady on the train just now.
Garry noticed the thoughtful expression settling over Jack's face, and mistaking the cause called Charles to take the additional orders. "Cheer up try a high-ball, Jack. It's none of your funeral. You didn't scoop Gilbert; we are the worst sufferers. Can't finish his house now, and Mr. Morris is just wild over the design.
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