A main difference betwixt men is, whether they attend their own affair or not.
Man is that noble endogenous plant which grows, like the palm, from within outward.
N.Y. The insistent band in the central dining room scattered strains of elevator music through every corner of Luchow's Restaurant on a certain summer evening in 1961. Captain Henry Locknane finished his cherry cheesecake, then settled back and gazed benevolently on his extended family. The word had been out for weeks that the gathering would be held so that further members of the clan might attend in honor of the shaydjook whom they had adopted, the man who had captured the contrary heart of Rosemary Quirk, once called Rozheen . He had always been there when they had needed him and, in return, had welcomed him and his family into their fold when he too went a-traveling on occasion. Cant, perhaps the only policeman in the world to do so.