It was less than a month later, and over a year after the adenoidal operation, that Harry returned home one evening from the real-estate office with nine dollars and forty cents in his pocket from the proceeds of the nickel-plated wash-room faucets and several liquid-soap attachments.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
In this glare he was revealed as a ratty little individual with open mouth and teeth hanging out-an adenoidal type, and certainly a criminal type.
"The Mardi Gras Mystery"
H. Bedford-Jones