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I looked in before going out and saw the first four but not the fifth; very nice. "Take a powder" was very commonly used when I was a kid, but I haven't heard anyone say it in ages.

ginge: Chandler wrote one of my favorite zingers of all time. Philip Marlowe, approaching a woman lounging by a swimming pool: "From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked made up to be seen from thirty feet away."

zinger - there's a word that needs reviving.

Tremendous aristo, definitely put me in the mood to reread Chandler.

I hope it's accurate; I'm quoting from memory. But then how do you forget something like that? I'm fairly sure it's from The High Window. I too was thinking I've got to reread the four biggies. He truly was brilliant. I love the later Rex Stout novels too. It's so odd; the first Nero Wolfs were almost cartoonish, but then Stout morphed into a literary stylist. Archie Goodwin is hilarious.

Gosh, how embarrassing. Should've checked first.

“From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.”

― Raymond Chandler, The High Window

I think you can be forgiven "like something", still impressive!

Hi Jolan
A bit late, sorry. I got #4 because I have kept one since I was 14! (and now need to be viewed from 50 feet at least and have given up most make-up!)
It is both embarrassing and interesting to see what poetry I liked in my teens.