Vulgar words in The Million-Dollar Suitcase (Page 1)
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Banking institutions take some pains to keep in their employ no young men who are known to play poker; but a poker face at that board would have acquired more than its share of dignity.
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Damn fool wants his name in the papers!
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"Acts as though it were a damn' crap game," I heard Dykeman muttering to Sillsbee, who came back vacuously.
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"With a jimmy pinched between the sash and the sill, a recurring pressure starts the latch back; nothing to hold it.
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Most observing cuss I ever seen."
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"Damn it all," the lawyer's irritation spurted out suddenly, "With a cub like that for a son, I'd say the reason wasn't far to seek.
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I remember looking at it and thinking that as soon as I was gone, he'd sit down in his chair and put every damn' word of our row into it.
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Eyeing the book in my hand, the boy blurted with sudden heat, "Those damn' diaries have been wife and child and meat and drink to him.
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In a flash, I remembered his words, "putting every damn' word of our row into it," and I shot straight at him, "Did you take that book, Worth?"
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We were all at breakfast there at the Gilbert house when I got the phone that those boobs down in Los Angeles had let Skeels slip through their fingers.
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Listening carefully I decided that the bothersome window was in Worth's room, and finally I got up sense and spunk enough to roll out of bed, stick my feet into slippers, and sneak over with the intention of locking it.
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Take that damn book and leave."
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They went on ahead of me, scrapping briskly, as a boy and girl do who have grown up together.
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"If you're going to turn out the whole damn' thing to Boyne, tell it straight; door was open; we couldn't have heard a yip out of Ina if it hadn't been.
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Some damn fool went and told mother about Worth being arrested, and made her a lot worse.
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Cummings, at my side, drew in a breath, with, "Why--damn it!--he is Clayte!"
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"Damn these bracelets!