Word: tinkly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extraordinary, returns to complete the theft of an associate's wife, Vida Carew. He is convalescent from malaria but chronically passion-ridden. What time he hangs around Tampico, small bright knives slip out of sheer hosiery and into brawny thoraces; frost accumulates on silver buckets and shakers; glasses tink; bottles crash on skulls; one girl smokes cigars, nude; another refuses $100. After many sultry but incessantly swift, surprising events, involving a lot of good Mexican history and accurate swearing, Govett Bradier boards a tanker for the U. S., discouraged with the oil industry and possessed of the illuminating discoveries...
...after-dinner speech, the Millionaire Kid, dressed to his name, was reported as having said: "When a guy gets out of de jug, society don't give him a tumble.* Dey rubs de welcome off de mat. Dey tink he ought to be punished all his life. Why, dere was a guy come out of de jug only four days ago wit' ten dollars in his pocket. Nobody gives him a tumble, but he'd been tru' college and been to medical school. I asks him what he wants to do an' he says...