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These matters can be dealt with much more happily and less formally by other avenues of approach and it appears to me that one of the most useful things we could do is to see that, in matters of the mind and the spirit, we re-establish intercommunication among the nations of the earth, perhaps, most of all, among our own people in the Empire and revive a new and different spirit than in the merely trafficking-I was going to say "huckstering" - spirit which, to a large extent has dominated our interest.

An Address By The Right Honourable Lord MacMillan 1933

Or, as Churchill warned of that particular system when it came up for debate in 1931, many constituencies would be "determined by the most worthless votes given for the most worthless candidates," while "the same bargaining and huckstering will go on. . . but then it will all be done individually, in holes and corners."

Same Old Britain 2011

Isn't it our responsibility as viewers to sift through the hype and huckstering to find shreds of objectivity?

Kathleen Reardon: The High Political Price of "Some People Say" Journalism Kathleen Reardon 2011

This sort of fickle and unprincipled governance — governance by haggling and huckstering — has been going on for over a year, and it shows no signs of ending.

Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

So is seeing the president huckstering for Detroit.

The Obama Administration is Becoming a Stand-Up Comedy Act 2009

So is seeing the president huckstering for Detroit.

The Obama Administration is Becoming a Stand-Up Comedy Act 2009

We can buy what we need and resist the temptations created by huckstering salesmen.

The Upside of the Downturn 2009

Would you believe there is someone out huckstering his book that Muslims were correct to believe that America is an immoral pagan society worthy of being attacked?

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

One has to hand it to authors Harvey Klehr and John Haynes who know a bit about huckstering and sloganeering.

Myra MacPherson: Review: Spies: the Rise and Fall of the KGB in America and "Three Tales of I.F Stone and the KGB: Kalugin, Venona and the Notebooks" 2009

We can buy what we need and resist the temptations created by huckstering salesmen.

David Latt: The Upside of the Downturn 2009