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Then, unable to think of further delaying tactics, he drew the two bulky loose-leaf books toward him and opened the red one, the criminal-case docket. Something would have to be done about this; he always told himself so at this hour.
"No well, yes I started at Evansville, where I bought this boat, but I live up the Mississippi, at Kaskaskia Gage, they call it now." "Yes? I stopped at Menard's on my way down from St Louis." "When was that?" "About ten days ago tell you in a minute Monday a week!" A big quarto loose-leaf notebook had revealed the day and date.
Believe me, the world has fallen too long for these worn-out countries that aren't producing anything but bootblacks and scenery and booze, that haven't got one bathroom per hundred people, and that don't know a loose-leaf ledger from a slip-cover; and it's just about time for some Zenithite to get his back up and holler for a show-down!
We want a rebate on that bill of lading." Lem removed a slip from his loose-leaf book and tendered it to Bart. "What's the matter with it?" inquired Bart. "Consignment short," announced Wacker. Bart looked him squarely in the eyes. Wacker had made the announcement malignantly. His gaze dropped.
He felt that he was in for it so he cocked his toothpick pluckily and wrote on the loose-leaf register the room clerk handed him: A. Thropp, wife and daughter, Nimrim, Mo. The room clerk read the name as if it were that of a potentate whose incognito he would respect, and murmured: "About what accommodation would you want, Mr. Thropp?"
He had notepaper, blank books, and ink, and he set about the weary task of keeping up his records, and putting down all that he could recall of the contents of his lost loose-leaf system. It was a staggering task.
Three days she had read that heap of notes in loose-leaf file which Terabon had written. She had read the lines and between the lines, facts and ideas, descriptions and reminiscence, dialogue and history, statistics and appreciation of a thousand river things, all viewpoints, including her own. She knew, now, how wicked she was.
Privately, she dubbed him Fascinating Facts, and he always remained that. His conversation was invariably prefaced with, "Funny thing happened down at the works to-day." The rest of it sounded like something one reads at the foot of each page of a loose-leaf desk calendar. At tea there was a great deal of silver, and lace, but Fanny thought she could have improved on the chicken a la king.
They have brought with them each a jargon of his own, as well as filing cabinets, card catalogues, graphs, loose-leaf contraptions, and above all the perfectly sound ideal of an executive who sits before a flat-top desk, one sheet of typewritten paper before him, and decides on matters of policy presented in a form ready for his rejection or approval.
There were men selling books that probably no one in the world would ever wish to buy or to read; women soliciting funds for charitable institutions which might or might not exist; salesmen positively enthusiastic in their desire to give the Guardian the benefit of their patent pencil sharpeners, or gas crowns, or asbestos window shades, or loose-leaf ledgers, or roach powder of peculiar pungency and efficiency.
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