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Updated: June 5, 2025
Guards were on duty, and men who looked like princes or very important personages in costume, white stockings, black pumps, buckles, breeches, and gay coats, stood at the door. Inside the hall a gold carpet stretched to the marble stairs. It was a wonderful place, and I wanted to stop and look. I was conscious of being a "rubber-neck." I might never see another palace again.
'All right, 'Sure! 'Yes, sir, 'Say, how's the boss? 'Good-bye. 'Not a cent. 'Take the elevated. 'Yup. 'Nup. 'That's one on you! 'Rubber-neck! A continuous fusillade of such phrases stimulated and flattered the audience, pleased to find themselves on such easy terms with the new language. But to Pinchas the idea of peppering his pure Yiddish with such locutions was odious.
With your college students and professors rough-housing de soda-water stands and dem rubber-neck coaches fillin' de streets, de folks down here are 'fraid to go out of de houses. Now, you leave 'em to Mike. Dey belongs to him, and he knows how to handle 'em. Keep on your own side of de town.
The cocoa and other advertisements had been taken off and they had been hastily painted a yellowish grey. Here and there we met one on the road, filled and overflowing with troops, and looking curiously like the "rubber-neck wagons" of New York.
"An' to think of me wastin' me talent on rubber-neck fleets!" A puzzled little frown puckered Helena's forehead. "I was thinking about the deaf and dumb man," she said slowly. "How about him, when we pull this off will he stand for it and what'll he do?" "Aw!" said Pale Face Harry impatiently. "He don't count!
He was well, but modestly, dressed; and he coughed a little now, as though the two flights' climb had overtaxed him it was the man who had headed the subscription list to the Flopper half an hour before in front of Black Ike's Auditorium. "Hello, Helena!" he greeted, nodding toward the couch. "I shook the rubber-neck bunch at Ike's, Flopper.
No one better than the Chink himself realizes the commercial value of the taboo, the bizarre and the unclean. Nightly the rubber-neck car swinging gayly with lanterns stops before the imitation joss house, the spurious opium joint and tortuous passage to the fake fan-tan and faro game, with a farewell call at Hong Joy Fah's Oriental restaurant and the well-stocked novelty store of Wing, Hen & Co.
A shout presently announced that the boys from Keyport had arrived in a big car of the "rubber-neck" variety, with five seats across; and used for sight-seeing purposes, or any excursion where a dozen or twenty wished to go in a crowd. A little later the fellows came on the ice in a body, with their distinguishing jerseys.
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