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English and all that sort of thing.

That was not John Curry. He had been to the Christian Brothers School, I think - if not to that to some other good school. He spoke the King's English and spoke it well. He was very dapper. He was perfectly dressed. I was about to say that he wore gray striped pants and a cutaway coat, but I can't swear to that. I've certainly seen him in that garb. Whether he wore it in the office or not, I don't know. Anyway he wore the most discreet and elegant and well-made suits - dark, quiet and what a gentleman should wear. He had a fine head, quite bald on top, but a long head with a high dome. He had slightly aquiline, distinguished features. He had a little short, blond-gray moustache. He was blond. He had blue eyes and his hair - what was left of it - was blond, I suppose turning gray. He was very erect and very straight. He might have passed for an English colonel. He was very straight and slim with a good figure. He was a very good appearing man.

The move from the old quarters to the new quarters was just typical of the difference between the kind of people who used to be dominant in Tammany Hall and this new kind - this rather polished-off kind. How deep Curry's education and sophistication went, I don't know. He wasn't awfully smart. He wasn't able the way Charlie Murphy was able. But