Aimless drawings

Usage examples of doodles.

Bobby Dulac is on the skinny guy's case, so Doodles is Dit's target, and he looks forward to pulling her down into the weeds and making her pay for calling him what she did, six years ago in the Nelson's filthy bar.

Dit doesn't get it - why doesn't Doodles just break away and take off ?

He reaches out, grabs two handfuls of pasty, rayon-covered flesh, and scoops wriggling Doodles under his arm.

Come to think of it, Doodles and the Dodos must have come the same way.

When Tansy heads for the truck bed (which already holds two men and one hefty female in a white rayon waitress's uniform), Doodles steers her toward the cab.

And now, as delicately as the girl she once was, Doodles Sanger approaches this woman of the hour.

What Doodles spotted lying on the floor of Teddy's truck bed was an old length of rope, dirty and oily but thick enough to do the trick.

Teddy, Doodles, and Freddy Saknessum walk behind her, and behind them come the rest.

Of course he does remember her, although the hardened face before him now only faintly resembles that of the bawdy party girl named Doodles Sanger who served up drinks at the Nelson Hotel a decade ago.

He plays it safe and says, "Cripes, Doodles, how the hell could I forget a pretty little thing like you?

When he sees his chief take off after one of the men, fat Dit Jesperson lurches into action and spots Doodles Sanger, against whom he has borne a grudge ever since she turned him down late one night in the Nelson Hotel.

He charges Doodles, who slips past him and goes into a chuckling, high-stepping diddley-bop.

Behind them, Doodles Sanger suddenly thinks of her father for the first time in maybe twenty years and begins to weep.

I pulled out a tatty legal pad and made myself some notes, mostly doodles if you really want to know.

For one thing, I could see now that his blotter was covered with scribbles: doodles, telephone numbers, what looked like case numbers, cartoon dogs and cats in various poses, appointments, names and addresses, drawings of cars with flames shooting from the tailpipes.