You want to get Capone? Here's how you get him: he pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send ...one of his to the morgue. It's the Chicago way and that's how you get Capone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the game of "Whist for two," usually called "Correspondence," the lady plays what card she likes: the gentleman simply follows ...suit. If she leads with "Queen of Diamonds," however, he may, if he likes, offer the "Ace of Hearts": and, if she plays "Queen of Hearts," and he happens to have no Heart left, he usually plays "Knave of Clubs."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not object to Gladstone's always having the ace of trumps up his sleeve, but only to his pretence that God had put it there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Will you greet your doom As final; set him loaves and wine; knowing... The game is finished when he plays his ace, And overturn the table and go into the next room?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I keep thinking that what I need to do is buy my leg back.... Surely it is for sale somewhere, poor broken tool, poor ornament. It might be in a store somewhere beside a lady's scarf.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf... Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,... And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The country was new to me beyond Fitchburg.... As we were whirled rapidly along, I noticed the woodbine (Ampelopsis quinquefolia),... its leaves now changed, for the most part on dead trees, draping them like a red scarf. It was a little exciting, suggesting bloodshed, or at least a military life, like an epaulet or sash, as if it were dyed with the blood of the trees whose wounds it was inadequate to stanch. For now the bloody autumn was come, and an Indian warfare was waged through the forest. These military trees appeared very numerous, for our rapid progress connected those that were even some miles apart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... a friend told me that she had read of a woman who had knitted a wash rag for President Wilson. She was eighty years old and he...r friends thought it remarkable that she could knit a wash rag! I thought that if a woman of eighty could knit a wash rage for a Democratic President it behooved one of ninety-six to make something more than a wash rag for a Republican President.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »