twentieth-pot-of-a-dollah

Updated: May 21, 2025

HERE'S your hot winnies, three for a nickel, a half-a-dime, the twentieth-pot-of-a-dollah!" This, above all nectar and ambrosia, was the favourite dish of Penrod Schofield. Nothing inside him now craved it on the contrary! But memory is the great hypnotist; his mind argued against his inwards that opportunity knocked at his door: "winny-wurst" was rigidly forbidden by the home authorities.

Booth Tarkington - Penrod