The great myth about overeaters is, They could lose weight if they really wanted to.

If I motor-mouthed, I might say something against the other batos. That wouldn't do. I wasn't a cheese-eater, not even now when the shit was down.

For many years a combination of rural squirearchies and business interests held tight control of most state capitols.

A drastic method this last to make sere of a full meeting and no shirkers of a “quisquis” business—evidently meaning a delicate and difficult one; a rare expression not found elsewhere in these papers.