raceabout

Updated: May 28, 2025

The reason for this late activity was very easy to understand, too, once one realized that Hogarty's clientele especially that of his Monday mornings was composed quite entirely of that type of leisurely young man who rarely pointed the nose of his tub-seated raceabout below Forty-second Street, except for the benefits of a few rather desultory rounds under Hogarty's tutelage, a shocking plunge beneath an icy shower, and the all pervading sense of physical well-being resultant upon a half hour's kneading of none too firm muscles on the marble slabs.

Larry Evans - Once to Every Man