Mr. Rothstein comes in,Scher said,it must have been about none o'clock. Every night he comes in here [Scher, like so many Broadway habitués, spoke most often in the historical present, rather than the past, tense. Damon Runyon faithfully reproduced this patois.] Regular as clockwork he comes in here.

The powerful storm demasted the ship.

They were thrown into ecstasies of suspicion by finding that we possessed a French translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf.

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