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...exceeded without any apparent hardships to those who fill the Houses. But, naturally, the policy of Armenian higgling has led to a vitiation of the advantages which pertained to the position of the authorities during the first surprise years. As soon as the bluffing was two-sided, the original bluffer lost his superiority Knowing what sonority will be attributed to their "maximum price," the students naturally ask for below that price...
Grimly the cotton men passed a unanimous resolution, bound themselves to sell nothing more to Germany until their arrears are paid up and notified His Majesty's Government that their mills will stay closed indefinitely. Same day in Berlin that master bluffer of international finance. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank and newly created ''Economic and Financial Tsar," suddenly issued a manifesto to the effect that "Germany, if necessary, can dispense with all raw material imports." This presumably was the opening move of Dr. Schacht, who always starts from zero, in a game to jockey the British cotton...
...sheer vituperation and ridicule Judge Lyle could hold his own against Mayor Thompson. Excerpt: "Chicago is a great and growing city. But what has Bill the Bluffer had to do with it? Like an African witch doctor he looks about, sees Chicago's skyscrapers, waves his arms and says, 'I did it all!' . . . An Eskimo at the North Pole might as well have been mayor ; while he was in Chicago his head quarters were in a hotel room where he spent his time playing checkers with a policeman. He calls me loony. Did you ever...
...wrote: "The answer to my request to appear in your church before your parishioners ... is yes or no." Pulpiteer Straton answered: "Emphatically and unchangeably yes." But he meant "no," he would not debate in his church. And the incident was closed with a few parting, typically Stratonian epithets: "Bluffer . . . Tammany trickster . . . coward...
...enabled her, some 16 years after she had divorced him and some 50 years after he had been Vice President, to ride regally through France on the glory of his title. Once, on a country road, when her carriage was checked by some marching soldiers, the indomitable old bluffer stood up in her carriage and cried: "Place á la veuve du Vice Président des États-Unis!" And the awe-struck military, not being expected to be conversant with so much American history, promptly stood at attention as she drove imperially past...