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Updated: June 18, 2025
Talking of Yellow Journalism, by the way, the expressions "a beat," and "a scoop," for what we in England call an "exclusive" item of news, were unknown to me until I went to America. I was a little bewildered, too, when I was told of a family which "lived on air-tights." The most popular slang expression of the day is "to rubberneck," or, more concisely, "to rubber."
Kirk, having reached the top of the stairs, had to check the wild rush he was making for the bathroom in order not to collide with Steve, whom he found waiting for him with outstretched hand and sympathetic excitement writ large upon his face. "Excuse me, squire," said Steve, "I've been playing the part of Rubberneck Rupert in that little drama you've just been starring in.
James Williams's wife his bride of two weeks looked him in the face with a strange, soft radiance in her eyes and a flush on her cheeks, looked him in the face and said: "Go with 'em quietly, 'Pinky, and maybe it'll be in your favour." And then as the Glaring-at-Gotham car rolled away she turned and threw a kiss his wife threw a kiss at some one high up on the seats of the Rubberneck.
"There's a man on board we want a Philadelphia burglar called 'Pinky' McGuire. There he is on the back seat. Look out for the side, Donovan." Donovan went to the hind wheel and looked up at James Williams. "Come down, old sport," he said, pleasantly. "We've got you. Back to Sleepytown for yours. It ain't a bad idea, hidin' on a Rubberneck, though. I'll remember that."
The Rubberneck coach lingered, out of respect for its patrons. What could be a more interesting sight than this? "My name is James Williams, of Cloverdale, Missouri," he said kindly, so that they would not be too greatly mortified. "I have letters here that will show " "You'll come with us, please," announced the plainclothes man.
But all these instances set forth only slow and groping interchange of sympathy and thought beside one other instance which the Rubberneck coach shall disclose. The gong whirred, and the Glaring-at-Gotham car moved majestically upon its instructive tour. On the highest, rear seat was James Williams, of Cloverdale, Missouri, and his Bride.
The sparkle in her eyes stopped him. "Oh, daddy!" she murmured, "what a liar you are!" "Cha-ampion!" said Dick, adding, as he left her: "Rubberneck!" Already the cricketers were gathering about the rear of the brake, amongst them a gentleman. To him Dick touched his hat. "T' driver, sir, be o'ercome with near leader fallin' la-ame. He be an owd pal.
The stores, closing at five o'clock, sent their quota of clerks to swell the mob at the quay, and the "rubberneck wagon," alert to earn fares, took the news of the fray into the country, and hauled in scores of excited provincials, who had vague ideas that la guerre was on.
One evening, Robert L. Cutting, of New York, brought her out to see the light. She was a terrific 'rubberneck. She jumped all over the machinery, and I had one man especially to guard her dress. She wanted to know everything. She would speak in French, and Cutting would translate into English. She stayed there about an hour and a half.
"Not on your endowment policy," Bunch chimed in. "Well, isn't a newspaper just as much of a public institution as a theatre? Suppose a manager were to call in a rubberneck, hand him a tool box and send him to a newspaper office to look for a splashy production on a busy night. Suppose, further, that after the paper went to press Mr.
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