Word: blarneyer
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Those were the years when the U.S. Marines were trying to keep Nicaragua's rival Liberals and Conservatives from using machetes on each other.* In the turmoil a Liberal general named José Moncada rose to the top. He found Tacho's bilingual blarney useful. When Henry Stimson came down to arrange the deal that made Moncada President in 1928, Tacho acted as interpreter. By then Tacho was on the upgrade. "I was lucky," he says. From the start, he knew how to make the most of this luck...
...Blarney Justice. He was a one-man chamber of commerce and court of domestic relations. He administered blarney, justice or the back of his hand as the case demanded; he fished in Tammany's pork barrel for 28 years to bring improvements to "me people." He was rigidly honest. "If I wasn't," he explained, "I might get caught and have to go before a judge I mightn't even know...
...rest. Her doctor (David Niven) decides not to tell her that she is far gone in tuberculosis. Slowly, she realizes that he is lying to her. Then she begins to doubt that his lavish charm and his protestations of love are better than so much calculated therapeutic blarney...
...right. For twelve years he has run radio's top top-o'-the-morning program, sleepily announcing the time, playing drowsy records, yawning through newscasts and here & there decorating the day's first commercials with slyly adverse comments on their sponsors. All this is unrehearsed blarney. His secretary Margaret ("Mug") Richardson, hands him a slew of advertising copy and news oddments (item: "The United States Government has bought 1,000 dead horses"), and "Red" Godfrey starts spieling...
...TiME says General Alexander ran a mile in 3 minutes 38 seconds. This is 24 seconds better than the record. The timekeepers must have kissed the Blarney stone...