> I had plenty of time to read _The Drowning Pool_
during my holiday
> vacation flights and I came across a phrase I hadn't
heard before --
> perhaps one of our resident hardboiled jargon experts
can help me
> out?
>
> On page 126 (of the Vintage Crime edition) Archer
says "Save it for
> Wednesday night meeting" to one of Kilbourne's
tough-guys. What is
> this a reference to?
>
Just an uninformed guess since I don't know the
context.
Many Protestant churches have a Wednesday night church-wide
set of
meetings which resemble Sunday School. Soem of these
are
conversations/discussion groups and others are youth
groups.
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Joseph M. Johnston, Ph.D. johnston@netreach.net
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