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...believed him was Sparrow Saltskin, "Half Hebe 'n half crazy," a petty grifter and dog thief who adored Frankie because the Dealer was kind to him and protected him. ("Guys who think they can rough me up, they wake up wit' the cats lookin' at 'em." In an alley, he meant.) Frankie really liked Sparrow: "I'd trust him with my sister all night. Provided, of course, she wasn't carryin' more than 35 cents...
...little thing here & there, up & down, something that don't look so bad at first, and first thing you know it's really bad. I just don't take any chances. We got a lot of good trainers around here and I like 'em. Sort of like to have 'em work over...
...Twist, who labored under "the slight imputation of having bruised three or four boys to death," explained the attitude of masters to boys who got stuck: "Boys is wery obstinit, and wery lazy, gen'lmen, and there's nothink like a good hot blaze to make 'em come down vith a run . . . vereas smoke ain't o' no use at all in makin' a boy come down, for it only sinds him to sleep, and that's wot he likes . . . It's humane too, gen'lmen, acause, even if they...
Behind a door marked "No Visitors" (no one may enter who has not been properly immunized), works attractive Dr. Alice Moore, a leading virus fancier. "I'm a virus girl," she says, "so I thought I'd ry 'em." She tried influenza virus on can-:erous mice. No effect. She tried the virus of herpes (inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes). No effect...
...This puts a premium on the ability to sugarcoat the English language to the point where a three-base error becomes merely a tough break. But even kindness of this sort is not enough to placate your athletes-critics, who constantly stantly try to corrupt your attempts to "Write 'em as you see 'em" by burdening you with their side of the story. This has even been carried to the point where a team-mate of an errant star interceded for him on the grounds that he was suffering from a hangover at the time of his shoddy deeds...