Columnist Pegler

Usage examples of westbrook.

Olin Westbrook, on the other hand, not only was supposed to be available at all hours of the day, but invariably had to be.

Cold sober, Westbrook had many of the reactions of a man who is dead drunk.

Studying her from the rear, Westbrook again complimented himself for assigning her to her present duties.

Pausing in the dimly lit corridor, Westbrook looked through the aperture.

A veteran of a thousand such lockerroom brawls, Westbrook watched them with a feeling of nostalgia.

In the last twenty years, they had worked with Westbrook in perhaps a dozen different hotels.

Also--unless Westbrook missed his guess--they made more money than he did.

At the time he had hired them, Westbrook had promised to give them day jobs on bells as soon as they became available.

But Westbrook knew that it signaled the crossing of an invisible line.

A few minutes later, as Bugs was preparing to leave, Olin Westbrook pounded on the door.

He told himself that just because Ollie Westbrook was acting screwy was no excuse for him to do so.

Naturally, he couldn't go to the lengths that Westbrook had suggested, but there was every chance in the world that they wouldn't be necessary.

He had betrayed Westbrook, a man who had befriended him, and indirectly the betrayal had cost him his life.

He elaborated briefly, explaining the matter as Westbrook had explained it to him.

Strolling about the hotel, wandering through the always amazing world that was the back-o'-the-house, Bugs wondered about Westbrook: What had happened to the little man?