Word: blarney
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Coal Is Trump. Of course such ringing blarney was not the only trump in the hand of Privy Seal Jim (one of the best bridge players in London and always for highest stakes). His long suit was a scheme which he privately unfolded to that shrewd though cherub-faced statesman Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister in Canada...
...relative of the member, Mr. Tsuneo Yamamoto, had been present at Blarney Castle, last week, when the petty Sultan of Muscat (Arabia) visited the Blarney Stone and emplanted a most peculiar kiss. Mr. Yamamoto was in a position to reveal that the Sultan of Muscat gingerly placed in contact with the Blarney Stone only the tip of his cane and then cautiously kissed the stick's big gold handle...
...deep into the stone is the name "Cormac McCarthy" and the date "A.D. 1446." But legend says it was in 1602 that Cormac McCarthy agreed to surrender Blarney Castle to the English and then put off doing so again and again until the situation changed and he was allowed to keep his castle...
...only one thing of immediate significance occurred. That was in Tennessee, where Finis James Garrett, for 23 years a member of the House, and since 1923 the House's boss Democrat, tried to get himself nominated for the seat in the Senate which now is occupied by blarney-tongued Kenneth Douglas McKellar. Senator McKellar won. "And that," said other Congressmen, "spells FINISH for Finis...
...Such blarney seemed innocuous but Commonwealth Official Cosgrave showed poor taste when he went on to praise one who notoriously slings verbal garbage at the commonwealth. Said Mr. Cosgrave: "I also want to say a word about that great and grossly libeled man, the Mayor of Chicago. If I were not a man of the world and experienced in politics I would have expected to meet a tough and a roughneck. Instead I was received and honored by a great big, kindly, genial, American, so bubbling over with plans for the betterment of his city that he talked about hardly...