Word: longstreets
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...Tearful Longstreet...
...also say "it jerked a tear from Longstreet...
...huge young derelict multimillionaire with a tireless hunger for "tomatoes" (women). He spent his time making bad "artistic" movies, an alcoholic stalactite of his liver, and arranging red-light expeditions at every port of call. Longstreet has a special, affectionate felicity with the dizzy-rich, and Big Boy is one of the most amiable who ever got onto paper...
...Haiti they called on a rich cream-colored Harvard classmate of Big Boy's and saw a libidinous so-called voodoo dance. In England Longstreet talked to a nice tart and a nice Lord. In Paris there was a countess who admired gangster slang: "What do you know, you mug, about this gimmick?" In Germany he saw the old vicious guns of World War I scrapped in a field near Kiel, read in the papers of an America no American has ever seen, and talked to a brave old pastor who was ''headed as sure as Christ...
...Rome Longstreet got some good notes on the Sistine frescos, and a Roman prince called him "you ol' sonampipch" and "you ol' basket." A side trip alone, to Rumania, brings some of the best writing in the book. He liked Turkey very much, thinks it is "the land of the future, if it can keep out of the next...