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...there is no chance whatever for a man who destroys a chickcharney's home; so when young Chamberlain insisted on cutting down a certain tree to build a railroad across his farm, the wise Andros natives refused to do it. "Boss man, he lookin' for trouble," they said. Chamberlain hired a crew from Nassau and cut down the tree anyhow. Soon after, of course, his farm failed...
...Burns's Tarn o'Shanter and Moore's The Time I've Lost in Wooing. He sang I Surrender, Dear and Dixie, until snippety Oscar Levant gasped: "From now on call me The Pretender." Neither Levant nor John Kieran nor Franklin P. Adams had a lookin. Everyone agreed that he was wonderful...
...Their gun battles were called corpse and cartridge occasions', the aftermath "looked like beef day at an Injun agency." A bad man was a curly wolf, a bandido, cat-eyed, or just a plain killer. Sometimes a curly wolf could stay on the dodge, among the willows, or lookin' over his shoulder for quite a spell. But once caught, his fate was sealed. With a rope around his neck he was hung up to dry, or exalted...
...morra, t'morra,* Livin' for t'morra, Why is t'morra better than t'day? T'morra, t'morra, Lookin' for t'morra, My aunt became a spinster That...
...turn da jernt inta a bowlin' alley!"). But the conspiratorial gleam which accompanies Jimmy's every imprecation ("Surrounded by assassins!") is a token of the vast human warmth he pours into giving pleasure and derives from having it received ("I know dere's a million good-lookin' guys, but I'm a novelty...