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Updated: June 16, 2025
The heelers and hangers-on of the criminal courts would have described him as a highbrow and as a holier-than-thou; perhaps he might in a moment of jocularity have even so described himself for he had his human perhaps I should have said, his weaker side.
Temptation came to me when I was in the worst possible position to resist it. It is a way temptation has. Whenever I swear off drinking invariably I am invited to an ushers' dinner. Whenever I am rich, only the highbrow publications that pay the least, want my work.
The audience is in no sense "highbrow," it is the general level of German humanity. It forgets and responds, and is ready to sing choruses with the leaders of song and dance.
But what I mind is their lack of culture and appreciation of the Beautiful if you'll excuse me for being highbrow. Now, I like to give a high-class lecture, and read some of my best poetry not the newspaper stuff but the magazine things.
They's a highbrow word for that stuff, an' it's 'observation. You just stick to that observation thing, kid, an' you'll find it a heap o' use t' you in this country."
FUSSIE: Listen. You know something? Sometimes I think Madeline Morton is a highbrow in disguise. HORACE: Say, you don't want to start anything like that. Madeline's all right. She and I treat each other rough but that's being in the family. FUSSIE: Well, I'll tell you something. I heard Professor Holden say Madeline Morton has a great deal more mind than she'd let herself know.
"Suppose you have a difficult example to do at school, and finally after working at it a long time you have to confess you can't do it does that mean it's a mystery and you are mystified?" This was a poser for the boys. They had never looked at a subject of this kind on any such light. "Cub, you're the highbrow of our bunch," said Hal after some moments of puzzled silence.
"That highbrow line might work out in time, but for a quick get-together proposition I'm backin' the dishpan." Believe me, this job of bein' private sec. all day and doublin' as assistant Cupid after hours may be entertainin' and all that, but it ain't any drowsy detail. Don't leave you much time for restin' your heels high or framin' up peace programmes.
Besides these chic functions we are, of course, deluged with invitations to informal meals with old and new friends, studio parties, afternoon teas, highbrow receptions and conversaziones, reformers' lunch parties, and similar festivities. We have cut out all these long ago. Keeping up with our smart acquaintances takes all our energy and available time.
Saving the life of a gink who, despite his brutal ways, belonged to the much-despised "highbrow" class. Billy was peeved with himself. Theriere, for his part, was surprised at the unexpected heroism of the man he had long since rated as a cowardly bully. He was fully determined to repay Byrne in so far as he could the great debt he owed him.
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