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Robert Cortes Holliday. Turns about Town
Turns about Town
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
TURNS ABOUT TOWN
CHAPTER I. THE HOTEL GUEST
CHAPTER II. A HUMORIST MISFITS AT A MURDER TRIAL
CHAPTER III. QUEER THING, 'BOUT UNDERTAKERS' SHOPS
CHAPTER IV. THE HAIR CUT THAT WENT TO MY HEAD
CHAPTER V. SEEING MR. CHESTERTON
CHAPTER VI. WHEN IS A GREAT CITY A SMALL VILLAGE?
CHAPTER VII. THE UNUSUALNESS OF PARISIAN PHILADELPHIA
CHAPTER VIII. OUR LAST SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT AS A FINE ART
CHAPTER IX. WRITING IN ROOMS
CHAPTER X. TAKING THE AIR IN SAN FRANCISCO
CHAPTER XI. BIDDING MR. CHESTERTON GOOD-BYE
CHAPTER XII. NO SYSTEM AT ALL TO THE HUMAN SYSTEM
CHAPTER XIII. SEEING THE "SITUATIONS WANTED" SCENE
CHAPTER XIV. LITERARY LIVES
CHAPTER XV. SO VERY THEATRICAL
CHAPTER XVI. OUR STEEPLEJACK OF THE SEVEN ARTS
CHAPTER XVII. FORMER TENANT OF HIS ROOM
CHAPTER XVIII. ONLY SHE WAS THERE
CHAPTER XIX. A HUMORIST'S NOTE-BOOK
CHAPTER XX. INCLUDING STUDIES OF TRAFFIC "COPS"
CHAPTER XXI. THREE WORDS ABOUT LITERATURE
CHAPTER XXII. RECOLLECTIONS OF LANDLADIES
CHAPTER XXIII. AN IDIOSYNCRASY
CHAPTER XXIV. THE SEXLESS CAMERA
CHAPTER XXV. I KNOW AN EDITOR
CHAPTER XXVI. A DIP INTO THE UNDERWORLD
CHAPTER XXVII. NOSING 'ROUND WASHINGTON
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CHAPTER XXVIII. FAME: A STORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Robert Cortes Holliday
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The defendant's attorneys have not appeared, it seems. Their case is not quite prepared. A postponement is asked. "Why is it not prepared?" asks the Judge. The defendant speaks out. Declares his attorney has not been paid. Judge's reply is that the attorney provided for him is an able man, who will see that all his rights are observed. Grants postponement until the next morning, positively no further. Officer by his side plucks defendant's coat tail, and starts him off back through the cage. As he goes he is heard to say that his attorney will not be there in the morning either.
And as he turns, my friend gets, with a shock, a full-face view of him. He had never expected anybody off the melodramatic stage to look so much like a murderer. Scarey, that face, a countenance almost majestic in its ruthlessness and force: gangster, gunman, typically personified.
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