huckster
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Lon Chaney plays a huckster circus performer who pretends to have no arms.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2025
He is the maximum huckster, in the tradition of American hucksterism.
From Salon • Jul. 18, 2023
But preproduction is disrupted by downtrodden producer Brad Shlansky, a Long Island huckster who was forced to grow up fast and eventually ventured to Hollywood with his two sisters.
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2023
The musical, which finds laughs in a worrisome alliance between a hick and a huckster, features a score by a pair of well-regarded Nashville songwriters: Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally.
From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2022
A watermelon huckster stood in the shade beside his truck, holding up a long slice of orange-mealed melon, crying his wares with hoarse appeals to nostalgia, memories of childhood, green shade and summer coolness.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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