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you have to hold your teeth clamped around Hollywood to keep from chewing on stray blondes.
He had a washed-out blue smock, was thin on top as to hair, had fairly honest eyes and his chin would never hit a wall before he saw it.
She didn’t know about it yet. It’s so hard for women – even nice women – to realize that their bodies are not irresistible.
and drank two cups of black coffee. You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol.
It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll’s house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.
Bubbles rose in it like false hopes.
It was a room where anything could happen except work.
was a nice face, a face you get to like. Pretty, but not so pretty that you would have to wear brass knuckles every time you took it out.
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
She shrugged her pale blue shoulders. I tried to keep my eyes where they belonged.
needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun.
Scattered points of light drew together and became a jewelled bracelet laid out in the show window of the night. Then the brightness faded and they were a soft orange glow appearing and disappearing over the edge of the swell.
A faint music came over the water and music over the water can never be anything but lovely.
‘There are places where cops are not hated, Captain. But in those places you wouldn’t be a cop.’
one of those mixed-up salads which men will eat with complete docility in restaurants, although they would probably start yelling if their wives tried to feed them one at home.
He would have been out of line by the rules, but Loring was much farther out of line.
He had a handsome hawk-like profile, getting a little saggy under the chin by now, but he knew how to hold his head so it wouldn’t show too much.
