Word: mountebank
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...Your Science Editor deserves a stern rebuke for his ignorance of mountebank methods...
...larger issue, however, transcends both Mr. Paley and the Honorable Henry, and presents itself to the Federal Radio Commission and the legislature which passed the Communications Act of 1934. Broadcasting is too important a thing to be left in the limbo of moot. In the hands of a political mountebank it is a tool that can be insidiously dangerous to honest government...
...poorly dressed persons in the House of Commons' gallery crying "down with the new unemployment act!" earnest, horn-spectacled Glasgow Laborite George Buchanan boomed: "The Prime Minister is a low, dirty cur who ought to be horsewhipped and slung out of public life! The Prime Minister is a mountebank! He is worse. He is a swine! I have nothing to say about the Minister of Labor for he is a son of Lord Derby and was born in another stratum. But the Prime Minister grew into power on the pennies of the poor people. He used to fight...
...fact native accent. At the outbreak of the War he enlisted as a private, emerged in 1918 as an .officer. In his three years at Cambridge he "was always faintly uncomfortable, being compelled to feel?and quite rightly too?a bit of a lout and a bit of a mountebank." While still an undergraduate he published a book of parodies (Brief Diversions), then went to London as literary adviser to a publisher, wrote book reviews for the London Mercury and the Daily News. The resounding success of The Good Companions, his second novel, freed him from Fleet Street. Once...
...pander on several occasions to the trivial and the vicious aspects of his electorate. This is not the first example of his interference in the affairs of the University of Oklahoma beyond the proper limits. His conduct while a possible nominee of the Democratic party was that of a mountebank seeking popular applause at any price. Certainly the action of the University authorities in the flogging case should have ended the affair. The Governor's interference was directly contrary to the principle that educators should be left free to carry out their educational policies as they see fit. It ought...