At the Denver House, a hastily erected log structure roofed and partitioned with canvas, described by Horace Greeley in 1859 as "T...he Astor House of the Gold Fields," orchestra leader Jones and his spirited men were interrupted by sporadic but not unforeseen bursts of gunfire that sent them diving for shelter behind a low iron-plated enclosure. Before the smoke had fairly cleared away, they were up again desperately playing and singing: Ha, boys, ho! Ain't you glad you're out of the wilderness, Ain't you glad you're out of the wilderness? Ha, boys, ho!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded... and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was somewhere in the '70's that the fiend gossip came into New York society to stay. The first newspaper outburst that I rememb...er was after the Beecher trial, which was a terrible beginning. Then the papers began with attacks upon women. There were stories of kleptomaniacs, and of a young and fashionable man who had stolen his cousin's ring at a dinner-party, etc., etc. None of this sort of story was allowed at the dinner of Mrs. Astor, Mrs. Belmont, or Mrs. Fish. I can imagine the fine face of the latter freezing into marble had any one opened such a door of Bluebeard's closet in her stately presence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In conn...ection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Brigid: You're not ... Sam Spade: Yes, angel. I'm gonna send you over. But chances are you'll get off with life. That means i...f you're a good girl you'll get out in twenty years. I'll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I'll always remember you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sam Spade: You, eh, you aren't exactly the sort of a person you pretend to be, are you? Brigid O'Shaughnessy: Why, I'm not su...re I know exactly what you mean. Spade: The schoolgirl manner. You know, blushing, stammering, and all that. Brigid: I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad. Worse than you can know. Spade: Yeah, well that's good. Because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere. Brigid: I won't be innocent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a man's partner's killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him, he ...was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. As it happens, we're in the detective business; well, when one of your organization gets killed, it's, it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. Bad all around. Bad for every detective everywhere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »