Talk Tough Like Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective! Don’t say “money,” say “cabbage” or “geetus.” “Ordinarily, I don’t work on a case unless I know there’s a stack of cabbage in…
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Talk Tough Like Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective! Don’t say “bullet,” say “lead pill.” “First one among you who tries to get away, gets a lead pill in his tripes.” And…
Talk Tough Like Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective! Instead of saying “cigarette,” say “gasper.” “I smoked about ten gaspers, killed nearly a whole fifth of scotch before I got lunch.” “I…
Depraved by an unbridled lust for rare books, every bookseller in town had been in her library.
Sure I’m a flirt! So what? This! I struggled against his embrace and then even though I fought against it, I found myself not struggling … I wanted him to…
A parallel revolt against the traditional modes of expression took place in poetry under the leadership of the Symbolists, who strove for direct poetic experience unspoiled by intellectual elements. They…
