Word: salesmanship
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...materialism disguised under a revolting wrapper of unctuous self-righteousness. To him, the average Englishman is a clever and unscrupulous hypocrite; a man who, with superhuman ingenuity and foresight, is able in some miraculous manner to be always on the winning side; a person whose incompetence in business and salesmanship is balanced by an uncanny and unfair mastery of diplomatic wiles; a coldblooded, prescient, ruthless opportunist; a calculating and conceited egoist; a cad with occasional instincts for that strange indulgence for which they have no word in their own language, and which they designate by our own expression, 'fair play...
...Afterwards, the sadly shaken Governor of Massachusetts wired Washington asking to have "the martyrs who died in the late battle tenderly preserved in ice and sent forward." Author Pratt never hesitates to give his opinion of Civil War personalities, calls General Burnside "a pioneer in the art of personal salesmanship, simply oozing elusive charm and sterling worth from every pore." Benjamin F. Butler was "a classic example of the bartender politician, with one eye and that bleary, two left feet and a genius for getting them into every plate, too important to snub." But he quotes sympathetically a remark...
Through all this it is necessary that the Business Board keeps its head. It is they who supply us with the cold hard cash which make possible spring pleasure. Freshmen tackling advertisers, in the spring, however, have a better chance to learn about the human sides of salesmanship. It is the best season of the year for cracking the hard hearts of finance. And we don't always exclude the Business Board from the pleasantries of life
...earmuffs and plug hat, he impersonates a sly dizzard who signs on as driver of the Sarsey Sal. Fortune is not a mule driver by trade. He prefers gambling and his various winnings in kind enable him to embark on such careers as the ministry, dentistry, photography and almanac salesmanship as the play progresses...
Chicago, Nov. 5--The cross-examination of Samuel Insull, Sr., in his $143,000,000 mail fraud trial ended today on a note of high-pressure salesmanship and the defense moved on to other witnesses intended to establish that collapse of the Insull empire was the result of conditions which affected business universally during the depression...