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He's got to be hitting on twelve." Fiegenspann understood. He nodded his heavy head. He began to see, then and there, that Felicity Brown was going to add another page to the Roof Club's history. He even essayed a compliment. "My clientele is of all the world," he said. "And you you look expensif." "I am," said Felicity. "No pikers need apply."
"Some day, Frank some day." The aged horseman combed his white beard with his fingers and regarded his impatient young friend with benign tolerance. "You got many clients, so far?" Thus tactfully did Old Man Curry recognise the fact that the Bald-faced Kid was what another man might have called a tout. "A few, yes," said the Kid. "Pikers."
And so the show above went on. A flock of little birds chirped and flopped past the group below. What pikers they seemed by comparison, with the show going on above far above!
He and McGivney and the rest of Guffey's men had a contempt for the public officials, whom they regarded as "pikers"; the officials had very little money to spend, and very little power. If you really wanted to get anything done in America, you didn't go to any public official, you went to the big men of affairs, the ones who had the "stuff," and were used to doing things quickly and efficiently.
When the game was over, he bought drinks to celebrate his victory. The losers treated, too, to show they were no pikers. Palmer was in high spirits. He offered to put up the eighty and throw for it. The losers mentioned dinner and various engagements. Palmer did not want to go home. Christine would greet him with raised eyebrows.
Our own artillery had been greatly increased and they evidently thought we were at least equal to the enemy in this respect, but, say: the stuff he turned loose on us made our artillery look like pikers. For every "whizz-bang" we sent over he returned about a dozen 5.9's. By that night, nearly all the original attackers were gone and Fritz was back in at least two of the craters.
"No, to take some away," said Carter, handing him his six thousand. Without apparently looking at it, Burbank passed it to his cashier. "King Pepper, twelve to six thousand," he called. When King Pepper won, and Carter moved around the ring with eighteen thousand dollars in thousand and five hundred dollar bills in his fist, he found himself beset by a crowd of curious, eager "pikers."
"Pesita wants you to send Esteban to him. I didn't have no chance to tell you last night while them pikers was stickin' aroun', so I stops now on my way back to the hills." "I will send Esteban tonight if I can get him; but I do not know. Esteban is working for the pig, Grayson." "Wot's he doin' fer Grayson?" asked Billy. "And what was the Grayson guy doin' up here with you, Jose?
I've seen enough of the kind of meanness money can breed. I'm going to make those Romans back there look like pikers. I'm " She reached out, placing her hand pat across his mouth, and, in the languid air of the room, shuddering so that her lips trembled. "Charley for God's sake it it's a sin to talk that way!" "O God, I know it, girl! I'm all muddled muddled."
His extravagance was constant. He was always planning to rent an expensive apartment and furnish it, but the money due him after each trip he spent immediately and they were never able to move away from the family hotel. He had to have taxicabs when they went to theaters. He would carol, "Oh, don't let's be pikers, little sister nothing too good for Eddie Schwirtz, that's my motto."
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