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But for all the talk of South Carolina’s penchant for dirty tricks, the state also values the glad hand.
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Sharon Lafraniere, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
Arguably the most notorious figure from the game’s most storied rivalry flew from his South Florida home to Boston for Tuesday night’s game and was expected to glad hand a few Yankees before, for many of them, the biggest game of their lives.
—Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2021
His medium, his material, is human frailty, the near end of original sin, and the tools of his trade are the glad hand, the scratched back, the padded envelope, the cut corner, and the jumped line.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2017
Sharon Lafraniere, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
Arguably the most notorious figure from the game’s most storied rivalry flew from his South Florida home to Boston for Tuesday night’s game and was expected to glad hand a few Yankees before, for many of them, the biggest game of their lives.
—Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2021
His medium, his material, is human frailty, the near end of original sin, and the tools of his trade are the glad hand, the scratched back, the padded envelope, the cut corner, and the jumped line.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2017
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“Glad hand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glad%20hand. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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