eighteen minutes after eleven
The Kid fights Edwards and a couple of more tramps and knocks 'em all kickin ' and we 're just gon na grab one of them `` See America Firsts '' for the coast when some club promoter goes crazy and offers us ten thousand iron men to fight Joe Ryan . The Kid would have fought the Marines for half of that , so we run all the way to the club and signed articles whiles the guy that hung up the purse was still wishin ' he had stayed on the wagon . The Kid had got Professor Parducci to fix him up with a few love charms and owls ' ears by which he was gon na make himself solid with Miss Vincent . In fact Scanlan fell so hard for the medium stuff that when the professor told him to get at all cost a lock of Miss Vincent 's hair clipped at eighteen minutes after eleven on a rainy Sunday night , he writes out to her and asks her to send him a lock cut just that way ! When he was n't pesterin ' the professor on how to win the movie queen , he was goin ' around mutterin ' , `` Loyal , likeable Lithuanians and generous gobs of Gazoopis ! '' until the newspaper guys wrote that Kid Scanlan would be a mark for the first good boy he fought , because like everybody else that was a sudden success , he had took to usin ' stimulants which is only sold on a doctor 's prescription . On the level , he 'd git a wad of paper and sit around all night with a dictionary , writin ' down all the words that begin with the same letter and then he 'd git up and repeat that stuff for a hour .