Word: glib
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When glib Mr. Sinclair writes a book, it has no creative value. It is sure to lapse into intellectual dishonesties. For Mr. Sinclair is sorely egocentric. He constantly mistakes vulgarity for strength of purpose and the woes of the world...
...primarily concerned. His essays are like the intricate oil-paintings of the time: a little figure in the foreground, and behind, in chiaroscuro, ships, crowds, cannon, marching men. In the interests of his characters, he has pried with a candle into many dusty cupboards. He is witty without being glib, and schooled in that subtlest accomplishment of scholarship-the ability to conceal his labor...
...Show-Off. The glib title character is known to all of us, is part of most of us. So intent is he on making a good impression that he generally creates a bad one. He does not realize that people would concede him something in return for a larger concession of silence by him. He buys a $28 overcoat on a $32 salary, sweeps a girl off into matrimony in spite of her family, brings her back to live with her mother, penniless, in the same grand manner...
...reminded of the ecumenical wave of "radicalism" that is sweeping the undergraduate off his intellectual feet. We have heard with deadening conviction the results of the diagnosis of students' marks. We have almost recoiled in despair at the revival of the old question of social distinctions, and the intolerant, glib exegesis that has naturally followed. Our guilty conscience has not been due to any secret lamentation and outward enthusiasm for such signs, but rather to the feeling that our fathers may have sufficiently detached themselves from the pulse of student life to misunderstand the proclivities for such things...