Talantbek Chekirov Embrace in Paris painting

Talantbek Chekirov Embrace in Paris paintingTalantbek Chekirov Close Encounter paintingMartin Johnson Heade Rio de Janeiro Bay painting
Kerflooey?" I said.
Greene tisked and nodded. "Used to be, I was sitting pretty. I liked people; people liked me. as pure. Then all of a sudden,kerflooey, the whole durn thing. I swear to Pete."know? Things ain't been the same at all since I come the Riot and set up in the plastic and promotion way."
I inquired whether Mrs. Greene was also a Graduate.
"I should hope to kiss a pig!" Greene cried, and though the phrase itself conveyed to me no certain answer, its tone and context suggested affirmation. "I guess she was the smartest little gal I ever did run across, was Sally Ann -- till things went kerflooey. When she'd call on a fellow to recite his lesson, he'd better know it right by heart, don't she'd fetch out that ruler of hers and crack him a daisy! Fellows twice her own size, that could break a redskin in two or lick their weight in wildcats!"
The kerflooiness of things, it developed, had a bearing upon Mr. Greene's return to Great Mall, and consisted of reverses both professional and domestic. He had in fact, and had now to choose whether to return or make the breach final. Yet things had not after all gone kerflooey in an instant of time: rather they had slipped into that condition by degrees, over a period of many semesters.
"I wonder sometimes if I ain't one of them drop-outs from the EAT-wave tests