Nor did he look like a bookmaker's clerk. He was more like a tout. There was about him that subtle suggestion of having no legal standing in the universe, of being perpetually ready to run.
Josephine Tey – Kif (1929)
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Doonhamer
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You talking about his nose. Somebody Photoshopped away his Adam's apple. The personification of a Slithy Tove. As to principles, he is of Groucho's persuasion. A face you would never tire of slapping with a navvy's shovel. Apart from that, seems like a nice man.
Hunt is another wretch like Hancock - just to see him is to get the measure of the man. Instantly dislikable. I would have thought that it would have been enough to prevent him ever rising above local government level, or to any position requiring election, but there he is.
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You talking about his nose.
Somebody Photoshopped away his Adam's apple.
The personification of a Slithy Tove.
As to principles, he is of Groucho's persuasion.
A face you would never tire of slapping with a navvy's shovel.
Apart from that, seems like a nice man.
Hunt is another wretch like Hancock - just to see him is to get the measure of the man. Instantly dislikable. I would have thought that it would have been enough to prevent him ever rising above local government level, or to any position requiring election, but there he is.
Doonhamer - yes it's the principles. He's certainly a man of Groucho's persuasion and isn't even good at hiding it.
Sam - that's the puzzle - how do they rise so far? It's as if anyone assertive enough will do because they only have to play a part written for them.
"There are two people I dislike intensely, and he's both of them"!
(Henry B.)
Scrobs - ha ha!
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