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Book: The Westing Game
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Ellen Raskin _ The Westing Game
I wanted to be a doctor, but, well, we don't have as much money as my mother pretends. Dad said he could manage if that's what I really wanted, but my mother said it was too difficult for a woman to get into medical school.
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Ellen Raskin _ The Westing Game
Hello, Jake, I'm so glad you could come," Sunny {as Madame Hoo was now called} said, shaking the hand of the chairman of the State Gambling Commission.
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Ellen Raskin _ The Westing Game
Read it out loud, dear," Grace ordered, as Angela opened the card tied to the yellow-ribboned box. To the bride-to-be in the kitchen stuck, An asparagus cooker and lots of luck. from Cookie Barfspringer "Thank you," Angela said, wondering which one was the Barfspringer. The next gift was an egg poacher. The box in pink ribbons contained another asparagus cooker. "I sure hope Doctor Deere likes asparagus," someone remarked.
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Ellen Raskin _ The Westing Game
TURTLE SPENT THE night at the bedside of eighty-five-year-old Julian R. Eastman. T. R. Wexler had a master's degree in business administration, an advanced degree in corporate law, and had served two years as legal counsel to the Westing Paper Products Corporation. She had made one million dollars in the stock market, lost it all, then made five million more.
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Ellen Raskin _ The Westing Game
HOO JAMES SHIN HOO. Born: James Hoo in Chicago. Age: 50. Added Shin to his name when he went into the restaurant business because it sounded more Chinese. First wife died of cancer five years ago. Married again last year. Has one son: Douglas. SUN LIN HOO. Age: 28. Born in China. Immigrated from Hong Kong two years ago. Gossip: James Hoo married her for her 100-year-old sauce. DOUGLAS HOO {called Doug}. Age: 18. High-school track star. Is competing in Saturday's track meet against college milers. Westing connection: Hoo sued Sara Westing over the invention of the disposable paper diaper. Case never came to court {Westing disappeared}. Settled with the company last year for $25,000. Thinks he was cheated. Latest invention: paper innersoles.
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Ellen Raskin _ The Westing Game
Today I have gathered together my nearest and dearest, my sixteen nieces and nephews {Sit down, Grace Windsor Wexler!} to view the body of your Uncle Sam for the last time. Tomorrow its ashes will be scattered to the four winds. I, Samuel W. Westing, hereby swear that I did not die of natural causes. My life was taken from me–by one of you!
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Ellen Raskin _ The Westing Game
daughter of the servants." "Gee, you must have been lonely, Judge, having nobody to play with." "I played with Sam Westing-chess. Hour after hour I sat staring down at that chessboard. He lectured me, he insulted me, and he won every game." The judge thought of their last game: She had been so excited about taking his queen, only to have the master checkmate her in the next move. Sam Westing had deliberately sacrificed his queen and she had fallen for it. "Stupid child, you can't have a brain in that frizzy head to make a move like that." Those were the last words he ever said to her. The judge continued: "I was sent to boarding school when I was twelve. My parents visited me at school when they could, but I never set foot in the Westing house again, not until two weeks ago." "Your folks must have really worked hard," Sandy said. "An education like that costs a fortune." "Sam Westing paid for my education. He saw that I was accepted into the best schools, probably arranged for my first job, perhaps more, I don't know." "That's the first decent thing I've heard about the old man." "Hardly decent, Mr. McSouthers. It was to Sam Westing's advantage to have a judge in his debt. Needless to say, I have excused myself from every case remotely connected with
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Ellen Raskin _ The Westing Game
Hello, Jake, I'm glad you could come," Sunny {as Madame Hoo was now called} said, shaking the hand of the chairman of the State Gambling Commission."Boom!" Jake Wexler replied.
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Ellen Raskin _ The Westing Game
You, too, may strike it rich who dares to play the Westing game.
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Ellen Raskin _ The Westing Game
Hey Chris, bet you don't know the Latin name of the red-headed woodpecker."That was a hard one. Chris had to say very slowly.
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Ellen Raskin _ The Westing Game
She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn't for the pressing demands of so on and so forth.
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Ellen Raskin _ The Westing Game
Sandy fidgeted with his pen. "There's something I didn't write down. Maybe I shouldn't tell you, you being a judge and all, but, well, Jake Wexler… he's a bookie." No, he should not have told her. "A small-time operator, I'm sure, Mr. McSouthers," the judge replied coldly. "It can have no bearing on the matter before us. Sam Westing manipulated people, cheated workers, bribed officials, stole ideas, but Sam Westing never smoked or drank or placed a bet. Give me a bookie any day over such a fine, upstanding, clean-living man."
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