But that just meant he was a fighter — not a glad-hander or a milquetoast.
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He's a glad-hander and a talker, the guy whose job is basically to charm people.
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So you were on the phone, you were talking to people, but you're not sort of a glad-hander?
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In Rome, Clay was everything the sports diplomats could have hoped for — a handsome, charismatic and black glad-hander.
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Ms. May is not a natural politician or a glad-hander, but she has concentrated on doing her work.
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At local mosques, he was known as a glad-hander who often pulled out a video camera to record gatherings.
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And Castro really does seem like he'd do the job of vice president — attack dog on the stump, glad-hander in office — very well.
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While Mr. Tillerson was a stern presence, Mr. Woods is more of a happy warrior, known as a graceful glad-hander at project openings.
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Known as Willie, Mr. Thompson was a gregarious glad-hander who, while he could be uncommonly blunt, ingratiated himself by expressing his unbridled opinions in several languages.
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But for all the attention he's received for his frequent presence on the Hill, the vice president is spending the early days of his tenure as more of a glad hander than a dealmaker.
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By her own admission, she was not much of a glad-hander, preferring to read reports and pore over tax bills — she was known for her pointillistic understanding of the tax code — than schmooze with colleagues and lobbyists.
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The main innovators were three engineers, Benjamin H. Latrobe of the Baltimore and Ohio, Daniel C. McCallum of the Erie, and Thomson of the Pennsylvania. They devised the functional departments and first defined the lines of authority, responsibility, and communication, together with the concomitant separation of line and staff duties which have remained the principles of the modern American corporation. Taciturn and not a glad-hander, Thomson was active in many civic projects.
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