Word: tanglefooted
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...table. His name is not found on many rosters of the business great, yet he had good claim to the proud title of "World's Greatest Salesman." His Harold F. Ritchie & Co., Ltd. is a globe-embracing network of sales agencies through which such commodities as Rubberset brushes, Tanglefoot fly paper, Glover's Mange Cure and Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy have been broadcast over six continents. His, too, the control of such famed products as Eno's Fruit Salt, Scott's Emulsion, Pompeian beauty cream. And his nom de guerre, immortal in the annals...
...political tanglefoot, however, it is Congress itself, its qualities and accomplishments, and not the Administration as a whole which is on the stand, subject to popular scrutiny, favorable or unfavorable as the election returns will show. Congress must hold up its own weight instead of leaning on the President for support; if it can do so without stepping on anybody's toes so much the better. At all events, as Secretary Hughes pointed out, in American state elections the Administration does well not to interfere more personally than to defend its general policies...