Old Paul wasn't going to change his habits for anyone. He'd gone through prohibition, when the toughest in mobsters of all time had been around, trying to move in on him. They hadn't, though, and he certainly wasn't going to start worrying about stickups this late in the game.

Narration on brewer Paul Rumplemyer's refusal to stop piling up a month of cash in his office safe.

— Hostage for a Hood (Lionel White, 1957)


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