He's made a little money recently in the paper business.

He's a mere tool for the Arneel-Schryhart interests.

He hasn't the courage of a two-inch fish-worm." When McKenty read it he simply observed: "There are other ways of going to City Hall than by going yourself." He was depending upon a councilmanic majority at least.
However, in the midst of this uproar the goings to and fro of Gilgan, Edstrom, Kerrigan, and Tiernan were nor fully grasped.

A more urbanely shifty pair than these latter were never seen.

While fraternizing secretly with both Gilgan and Edstrom, laying out their political programme most neatly, they were at the same time conferring with Dowling, Duvanicki, even McKenty himself.