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Updated: May 3, 2025
And I wish you could have seen that steward when I got through talking to him. Every day smooth-talking scamps, who know him by reputation, come with schemes for getting him to invest in something, or with pitiful tales about being Americans stranded far away from home. I take care of these sharks and they don't bite me, not often.
The reporter was young, but he was not lacking in shrewdness. This boyish-looking journalist had interviewed smooth-talking scoundrels before. "There is one little point I would like to inquire about, Mr. Rhinds," hinted this reporter, chewing at the end of his pencil. "A dozen a hundred points anything you want to know!" protested the man who was being interviewed.
Your gold-piece is safe and one of the dollars. He used the other and the small change for his refreshments. Here, take your pocketbook, and I wish to say that there are not many grown people who could observe and describe so well the thief who robbed them." "I will not trust anybody again as I did that smooth-talking stranger. I will be on the lookout all the time for thieves."
"Oh, what fools we have been, Charlie!" "Anyhow," said Charlie, divining her thoughts, "there's a good deal to be said for that saying, 'All's well that ends well. I've been thinking what a difference there is in men. Now, take for instance David Strong. Just stack him up alongside this slick, smooth-talking " "Oh, Charlie!" It was almost a wail.
"'Yes, said the President, 'this man Strider is at the head of that party. He is a smooth-talking fellow rather an "Oily Gammon," very shrewd, and hard to catch at any open or overt act. He has a way of setting others on and keeping out himself. At least, I should so conclude from what I have seen and know of him. "'Yes, Mr. President, you have estimated the man correctly, was my reply.
If I were a German taxpayer I should feel much like the man who discovers that the Florida land which some smooth-talking combination travelling book-agent and real estate agent persuaded him to buy is several feet under water.
But as a widow of a year's standing she was now suddenly interested by the thought that this solid, ambitious, smooth-talking man might possibly satisfy her natural preference for a mate without violating her individuality.
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