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"It's simply no good trying to pick the winner on form," said Bertie; "one must just trust to luck and inspiration." "The question is whether to trust to one's own inspiration, or somebody else's. Sporting Swank gives Count Palatine to win, and Le Five O'Clock for a place." "Count Palatine that adds another to our list of perplexities.
But I think you'll recall my telling you I stand in well with the Police Department in the old home town. Maybe you thought that was swank. Likely you did. But it wasn't. I've got a couple of friends of mine from Headquarters waiting downstairs this very minute, ready and willing to cop out the honour of putting the Lone Wolf under arrest for stealing the Montalais jewels."
From the highest to the lowest, there was a total absence of that arrogance which the American mind has so long associated with the English. For fear of being thought to swagger, an Englishman will understate his case. And so with the various English officers I met at the front. There was no swank.
Nadine Haer, daughter of the late Baron Haer of Vacuum Tube Transport, entered the swank Exclusive Room of the Greater Washington branch of the Ultra Hotels, the orchestra ceased the dreamy dance music it had been playing and struck up the lilting "The Girl I Left Behind Me."
Golf humanizes women, humbles their haughty natures, tends, in short, to knock out of their systems a certain modicum of that superciliousness, that swank, which makes wooing a tough proposition for the diffident male. You may have found this yourself?"
Our first-class cabin passengers were three, Reginald K. Whinney, scientific man, world wanderer, data-demon and a devil when roused; Herman Swank, bohemian, artist, and vagabond, forever in search of new sensations, and myself, Walter E. Traprock, of Derby, Connecticut, editor, war correspondent, and author, jack-of-all-trades, mostly literary and none lucrative. Our object?
I shall send you a box this afternoon by Carter Paterson." "You're very kind. But tell me, why is their paper brown?" "Berry says it's swank. But then he would. As a matter of fact, it's maize. I like it myself: it's so nourishing. Besides, it goes so well with a blue suit. Talking of which, with a flowered dress and dark hair, it's absolutely it."
"Well, of all the swank!" exclaimed the other incredulously. "What's that?" "Side, swell-headedness, dog, intolerable conceit er " "That'll do. You talk like a dictionary of synonyms." "You talk like a blooming idiot! Why, don't you know that the second team is nothing on earth but the 'goat' for the 'varsity?" "Yes, and the 'goat' butts pretty hard sometimes," chuckled Clint.
It was an anxious moment until he looked up and said with a hysterical quiver in his voice: "Unanimously green." "Let's go!" shouted Swank, but I stopped him. "Hold on," I said. "Triplett is in on this. We agreed that it must be unanimous." My companions' faces lengthened like barrel-staves. "Damn," muttered Whinney. "I hadn't thought of him."
And it was as late as on the occasion of his return in 1862, to operate the experimental Bessemer converter, that he first recognized, by its adoption, the necessity for or the importance of any after treatment of, or additions required by the blown metal to convert it into steel. Swank, op. cit. Mr. Fry was at the Cambria Iron Works from 1858 until after 1882.
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