"Aboveboard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sounded like serious business, and he began to feel something like indignation surging up within him. If there was anything Jack Winters despised it was underhand work. Straight and aboveboard himself he was unable to conceive how any fellow could so demean himself as to wish ...
— Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums • Mark Overton
... knows that...." he continued, with a sceptical laugh. "Is it not written ... in the society papers? But it has always been aboveboard—and ...
— Roden's Corner • Henry Seton Merriman
... to scandalize ourselves for Bill Humble's sake. In a straight and legitimate business,' says I, 'we could afford to introduce a little foul play and chicanery, but in a disorderly and heinous piece of malpractice like this it seems to me that the straightforward and aboveboard way is the best. I propose,' says I, 'that we hand over $500 of this money to the chairman of the national campaign committee, get a receipt, lay the receipt on the President's desk and tell him about Bill. The ...
— The Gentle Grafter • O. Henry
... to his charging groceries and keeping Mr. Bartlett's money over at the Bullfinches', but he had not been able to get away from an uneasy feeling about what he had been doing. It was his nature to be open and aboveboard. The past month had been ...
— Jerry's Charge Account • Hazel Hutchins Wilson
... Tarif-Ben-Malik, the most enterprising Robber Baron of his day, and thus the Lords of Tarifa were the progenitors of the Robber Barons of the Black Forest, New England and Pittsburgh. Tribute was the name the Moors gave their robbery, which was open and aboveboard. The Coal Kings, the Steel Kings and the Oil Kings of the modern world have contrived to hide the process; but in Spain the palaces of their forefathers rise in lonely and solemn grandeur just as a thousand years hence the palaces upon the Fifth Avenue side of Central ...
— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson
... 'im. I've told 'ee afore, I don't care wheer she comes nor wheer she goes, she bean't nothin' to me no more, nor I to she. If so be some man 'as a mind to ax 'er for 'isself, all open an' aboveboard, I say again—let 'im. And now, ...
— The Broad Highway • Jeffery Farnol
... face of all this volubility, Tommy felt doubts. Was it possible that this genial, well-known figure could be in reality a dangerous criminal? His life seemed so open and aboveboard. No hint of sinister doings. Suppose it was all a gigantic mistake? Tommy felt a ...
— The Secret Adversary • Agatha Christie
... over, in the name of morals, they start out and perform, regardless. The authorities, they get worried because a Kanaka's spree lands him, like as not, in a blackbirder. Mighty queer craft hang round at this season. There ain't supposed to be anything doing in these blessed islands that ain't aboveboard, but 'tisn't as though the place was run ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... [Crossing in front of JOHN and facing WILL, back to audience.] just the way it ought to be—frankly and aboveboard? ...
— The Easiest Way - Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911 • Eugene Walter |
