“He used to wear a little blond moustache but Mother made him cut it off. She said -'
'Don't tell me. The minister needed it to stuff a cushion.”

—  Raymond Chandler, book The Little Sister

Source: The Little Sister (1949), chapter 2

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Novelist, screenwriter 1888–1959

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