"The Early Worm" [.]

[fiefoe]

[On the Holland Tunnel:] It behooves New Yorkers to study up a little.. and see why it is that 46,000 vehicles are going to want to go to Jersey City every day.
['Life in The Ritz Tenement':] A void on the stairs with bell accompaniment: Oyster-forks sharpened! Oyster-forks sharpened!

<Crime & procrastination are more timeless:>

• He pointed to a fancily carved piece of guest soap on the washstand. 'The light was behind that,' he said, 'and from outside it looked like a man.'
• The mysterious Wallack disappearances were thus explained, and Leon Nabgratz was arrested for having in his possession a trunk with a misleading label on it.
  Art is long and time is fleeting.
• At this point it was necessary to light a pipe, which involved going to the table where the tobacco was. As it so happened, on the same table was a poker hand, all dealt, lying in front of a vacant chair. Four other chairs were oddly enough occupied by students, also preparing to study. It therefore resolved itself into something of a seminar.
  

__ the Colony Club; 'the self-styled winners, Byrd and Admundsen'; 'socially possible people'
__'The chances are against filling an inside straight.'

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