tiptilted

Updated: May 18, 2025

He more than suspected that many men who came to the busy office in the heart of the city were far from respectful. He remembered how his blood boiled one afternoon when he found a bulky fellow, his hat on the back of his head, his legs outstretched, and a vile cigar tiptilted in his mouth, sitting leering beside her desk. "You shouldn't permit it," he said to her, later.

Charles King - A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike