well-linened

Updated: May 16, 2025

The sky has grown lighter. The buildings shake the last drops of rain from their spatula tops. There is a different-looking, well-linened gentleman thrusts his head into the old book store and inquires, "Have you a copy of 'The Investors' Guide'?" The beggar in the street, sitting on the pavement against the building with his pleading face raised and his arm outstretched I don't like him.

Ben Hecht - A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago