Hucksters

The bottom line: turning the State Department's functions over to Beltway bandits and Hollywood hucksters is not in the interest of the American people. ❋ Bob Jacobson (2010)

Worth cites Al Akhbar's editor, Ibrahim al-Amine, waxing lyrical about Israel's coming elimination, and the subsequent deportation of the Jews "back to Europe," where, as the "hucksters" and "hagglers" dismissed by Marx in his On the Jewish Question, they will feel much more at home in its brazenly capitalist environment. ❋ Ben S. Cohen (2010)

From these humble "hucksters," a hot peppery stew, a dish of ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

Similar trucks were driven by "hucksters" as movable shops filled with groceries or other objects. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So we know, for instance, that her ancestors came from Alsace-Lorraine in Europe and that there were several "hucksters" in the family in 1870 (the first time this category was used). ❋ Unknown (2010)

"hucksters" of Amsterdam resolved on a deed of daring which is one of the most exalted among "the high traditions of the world." ❋ John [Editor] Rudd (1885)

The hucksters are painting the world in black and white dualities. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

Beck is the latest incarnation of a centuries-long line of self-made tricksters and hucksters who have tempered showmanship and salesmanship with dashes of God and Country to offer their audience a convenient cure-all. ❋ Megan Doherty (2010)

On Tuesday, Mr. Hashimoto compared the company to hucksters on television-shopping channels who claim their merchandise is in short supply. ❋ Peter Landers (2011)

The West has lost it's confidence in assimilation, of self-sufficiency, so immigrants learn to celebrate their indigenous culture (which was so wonderful they had to leave it), to demand various rights, and glom onto racial and ethnic hucksters who make a living off the guilt of European suburbanites. ❋ Unknown (2009)

EELV hucksters are like the folks who still wanted clipper ships when Brunel taught us that larger ships like Great Eastern were the future. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Just a bunch of hucksters for the Zionists and criminal rich. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Did you know that this whole time you were being rolled by a few hucksters? come on, man. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He has been the arch-exponent of a biased German narrative of the crisis: a narrative that dumps all blame on lazy Mediterranean types and Irish hucksters, and ignores the failure of Germany to adhere to and enforce the Stability and Growth Pact, the recklessness of German banks in fuelling the bubble, and the inability of German regulators to stop them. ❋ Geoffrey T. Smith (2011)