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Updated: May 7, 2025
They know just the old political game, that's all." "Its a great game, though, Bud," sighed Cullen, longingly, for, like many newspaper men, he had the secret feeling that he was cut out to be a great politician. "Sure, it's a great game, as a game," agreed Haines. "So is bridge, and stud poker, and three-card monte, and flim-flam generally. Take this new man Langdon, for instance.
Immediately on this news a secret visit was arranged, the Prince journeying to Bangor incognito as the Count of Flim-Flam in the costume of an officer of the Imperial Scavengers. On receipt of the Emperor's telegram the happy pair fell in love with one another at once.
"I ought to be pretty good at waiting by now," she told him, little impressed. "And if you have anything up your sleeve besides the flabby arm of a do-nothing, then it must be another bottle of whiskey! You can't flim-flam me, dad, and you ought to know it." She whisked out of the house, her face reddened with vexation, a sudden moisture in her eyes.
"Well, you didn't say there was anything more, did you?" inquired the bland McQuiggan. "I? I didn't say?" "Yes, you. You got up the ads." "Well well well, of all the nerve!" cried Dr. Surtaine, grievously appealing to the universe at large. "I got 'em up! You gave me the material, didn't you?" "Sure, did I. Hot stuff it was, too." "Hot bunk! And to flim-flam my own people with it, too!"
Avenel; she was a weak woman, silly in some things, and a cunning one in others, but she was a good wife as wives go. Scotch women generally are. "Bother!" said Dick. "What do women know about politics? I wish you'd mind the child, it is crumpling up and playing almighty smash with that flim-flam book, which cost me one pound one." Mrs.
Charlie took a buckskin bag from his blouse and counted out a handful of silver and gold. "I buy um nisi two-piecee tobacco." "Look here," said Wilbur deliberately; "don't you try to flim-flam us, Charlie. We know you too well. You don't want bacon and you don't want tobacco." "China boy heap plenty much sick. Two boy velly sick. I tink um die pretty soon to-molla.
Avenel; she was a weak woman, silly in some things, and a cunning one in others, but she was a good wife as wives go. Scotch women generally are. "Bother!" said Dick. "What do women know about politics? I wish you'd mind the child, it is crumpling up and playing almighty smash with that flim-flam book, which cost me one pound one." Mrs.
Well! all that is nothing but flim-flam, veneer, outside show, and if the marquis needed a hundred sous, no one would loan them to him on his worldly possessions. The furniture is hired by the fortnight from Fitily, the cocottes' upholsterer.
"We were prowling around the jewelry haunts, Grace and I, seeing what she could flim-flam me into buying for her, when we ran across this thing. She thought it was great. I looked it over and saw that this bronze gentleman does not hold his club the way I do, and was in favour of letting him wait for another owner.
You see, if I should ever benefit by the property you would feel as though I had taken advantage of you at this time and worked a flim-flam on you!" "Oh, I'll look out for that," returned Vandover. "No, no, I don't feel quite right about it," answered Geary, wagging his head and shutting his eyes. "Better see what we can do at a forced sale."
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