He felt suddenly of the texture of his own coat and then he reached out and pressed his thumb against the granite of the building by his side.

Ten Years Drunk

"From here you get a good candid focus on Rockefeller Center," he pointed out with spirit "-and the Chrysler Building and the Armistead Building, the daddy of all the new ones."

Challenge The Sky

"From here you get a good candid focus on Rockefeller Center," he pointed out with spirit "--and the Chrysler Building and the Armistead Building, the daddy of all the new ones."

Hudson Yards

Orrison attempted to connect the name with Admiral Byrd's hideout at the South Pole or flyers lost in Brazilian jungles. He was, or he had been, quite a fellow--that was obvious.

Afghanistan

"The weight of spoons," said Trimble, "so light. A little bowl with a stick attached. The cast in that waiter's eye. I knew him once but he wouldn't remember me."

The Weight Of Spoons

But Mr. Trimble didn't look as if that was in his mind--the dominant expression was of absolute and deep-seated curiosity.

Curious

"I thought we might walk up Fifth Avenue about five minutes and eat wherever we happened to be. Some place with young people to look at."

On 5th/Further Up 5th

"I can't lunch today," continued his chief. "Take him to Voisin or 21 or anywhere he'd like. Mr. Trimble feels there're lots of things he hasn't seen."

Ready To Take You To Lunch

He had seen this visitor go into the editor's office--a pale, tall man of forty with blond statuesque hair and a manner that was neither shy nor timid, nor otherworldly like a monk, but something of all three.

Newsroom

Instrument Intro to The Lost Decade. An Operetta based on the short story by F Scott Fitzgerald.

The Lost Decade (An Operetta)