Word: blarneyed
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...owner for a small price, and immediately started the company toward success. He is very shrewd and a good showman has a genius for the handling of singers. He subdues these difficult persons, not by any show of authority and dignity, but with delightful effusions of South Italian blarney. Early in his career he adopted the policy of " small salaries, but sure," and after much display of diplomacy educated his singers to the notion that $100 a week is better when you get it than $500 a week when...
...BLARNEY (durch) Bonnet takes unqualified delight in assuring his patrons that in the future he will give up "beating down" the students, since this, he considers, puts him on a level with the Cambridge police. Come boys, make your own prices. It won't do you any good, but then, where's the harm? Come and set your traps for me at 2 Holyoke St., Marks' Barber Shop...