Impossible Missions Force leader Jim

Usage examples of phelps.

I had them send everyone into the next room, except Manton and Phelps, and had the doors and windows thrown open to give her air.

These were the two extra players—the butler and the maid, the assistant director, Phelps's house servants, and Emery Phelps himself.

Leigh was a bigger man than Phelps, of the highest standing in downtown financial circles.

I'll never forget how impressed Phelps was with this place the first time.

Deserting Millard and fascinated by Manton and his game, she had been used to interest Phelps in the company.

Is Phelps to be cast aside like a squeezed-out lemon, and Leigh taken on for a new citrus fruit?

He and Emery Phelps, the banker, you know, were having an honest-to-goodness fight right out in the lobby.

Then probably he began to borrow from Phelps, who's Manton's backer now, until the banker shut down on him also.

You've something to tell me and you want me to come right out—you have summoned Phelps and he's on his way from the city also—?

I was a little in doubt what to do about Phelps, but he settled it himself by announcing that he was going to town.

Then, when everyone was gone and while Phelps was waiting for me, I detailed two of my deputies to stay on guard—one inside and one outside—for the night.

In particular he owes Phelps some huge sums and old Phelps is on his tail, hollering and raising Ned.

Yet the leading man was desperately pressed for money, had had a disgraceful fight with Phelps as we already knew.

In an instant Phelps exploded and the thin veneer of politeness was gone.

If Phelps had secretly "borrowed" from the trust accounts in his charge a quarter of a million or so, I saw that his situation must indeed be desperate.