"New deal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hopes for the future, as we poor devils of the untitled world are quite unacquainted with. Nay, not content with giving him the goods, many of the poor demented creatures actually paraded their folly at their doors in new deal packing-cases, flourishingly directed 'TO SIR HARRY SCATTERCASH, BART., NONSUCH HOUSE, &c. By Express Train.' In some cases they even ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... in the room, and Barty was about to make himself scarce, but they pressed him to come in; so he sat at another little new deal table on a little new straw-bottomed chair, and she brought him a glass of beer. She was a very handsome girl, with a tall, graceful figure and Spanish eyes. He lit a cigar, and she went back to her beau quite simply—and they ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier
... said again, "I don't know whether that's common-sense—tossing the rotten past into the abyss and making a new deal—or whether it's because I've deteriorated too much to see ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... very well to keep the cards on the table, and race preservation goes on giving us a new deal, but neither of them alone, nor both of them together, ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... and adjourn—and with it went glimmering the visions of office, and spoils, and the riotous assaults on the public treasury that had for months been organizing for the day when Mr. Johnson should be put out and Mr. Wade put in, with the political board clear for a NEW DEAL. ...
— History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, • Edumud G. Ross
... I have to say about Van Vreck. I thought in fairness you ought to know that I didn't keep the diamond. And I thought I might tell you that my call at Van Vreck's didn't mean entering any new deal." ...
— The Second Latchkey • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... what they have not—a national imaginative tendency. There are no fetters upon our fancy; and, however deeply our real estate may be mortgaged, there is freedom for our ideas. England has not yet appreciated the true inwardness of a favorite phrase of ours,—a new deal. And yet she is tired to death of her own stale stories; and when, by chance, any one of her writers happens to chirp out a note a shade different from the prevailing key, the whole nation pounces down upon him, with a shriek of half-incredulous ...
— Confessions and Criticisms • Julian Hawthorne |
