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Updated: May 28, 2025
After years of the newspaper habit, reading and writing them, it had fallen away in Tahiti as the prickly heat after a week at sea. Of what interest was it that the divorce record was growing longer in New York, that Hinky Dink had been reëlected in Chicago, and that Los Angeles had doubled in population.
The most he had done had been to take Oliver grimly aside from the dance they had gone to last night and explain in one ferocious and muffled sentence delivered half at Oliver and half at a large tree that if Hinky Selvage didn't stop dancing with Elinor that way he, Ted, would carry him unobtrusively behind a bush and force him to swallow most of his own front teeth.
'Come over here, an' I'll tell ye, says Duggan. Dinny Shay an' Hogan an' Mullaney jined us, an' we wint an' set on the steps. "'Can Winter beat Swift? says Shay. 'I'd like to know, says Hogan. 'I don't know who to vote f'r, he says; 'an' Mike is in th' wather office, he says. ''Tis a cinch Hinky 'll win out in th' First, says Mullaney. 'He have a sthrong man again him, says Hogan.
Let no man wonder that Lorimer's people do not prefer an efficiency expert, that a Tim Sullivan has power, or that men are loyal to Hinky Dink. The cry raised against these men by the average reformer is a piece of cold, unreal, preposterous idealism compared to the solid warm facts of kindliness, clothes, food and fun. You cannot beat the bosses with the reformer's taboo.
They had gone to Hooley's and Sam T. Jack's, then to the Athletic Club and then they called on Hinky Dink and "Bath-House John," the famous Cook County literary light. Where else they had gone they could not remember.
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