Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Baby-Face Nelson repartee




“Why… Jimmy Burnell!” Negri exclaimed, using Nelson’s old alias.  “Where’d you pop from?”
Nelson grinned.  “Oh, I just blew in from the east.”
-- Bryan Burrough, Public Enemies (2004), p. 175

(The noir aesthetic  meets a Mary Poppins meme.
 For a Carl-Sandburgian take on such lingo, try this:   Rootabaga.)

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