Word: glib
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Costa Rica. Four career secretaries were advanced to their first full envoyships when Julius Garecke Lay was named Minister to Honduras, Matthew Elting Hanna to Nicaragua, Post Wheeler to Paraguay, Charles Boyd Curtis to Santo Domingo. Known as "bright young men" about the State Department, all seven are glib in Spanish...
Grocer Feldman should know. Six times since January has his little store been entered and robbed by the same glib, ebony thief. The procedure has almost become a ritual. The Negro customarily surveys the store about closing hour (7:30 p. m.) to see that Grocer Feldman is alone, then immediately enters with his pistol. Usually nothing is said. Grocer Feldman smiles wanly and calmly gives his money to the black man. The first time he got $87. His succeeding visits netted him $49, $57, $54, $30. This year, Grocer Feldman was unable to take his family away...
When anything extraordinary and un- accountable has happened lately on the New York Stock Exchange it has become more or less of a habit to account for it airily by saying: "That's Chicago buying." Many an offerer of this glib information when asked what he means by Chicago, answers: "Oh, Arthur Cutten and the rest?yon know." Two announcements from Chicago last fortnight illustrated in part of whom "the rest" consist. One was the announcement of a new investment corporation ? Manhattan-Dearborn Corp. The other news was sale of new stock by Chicago Investors' Corp. The directorates...
...Devil, glib, cynical, disguised as a man, adroitly diminishes the distance between two who love, an artist and a banker's wife. With this farce Producer Henry W. Savage introduced Molnar...
Later this summer, Herr Schmeling will probably fight out the world's title inheritance with Josef Paul Cukoschay (Jack Sharkey), the glossy, glib, unconvincing Bostonian than whom, for the moment, the U. S. can apparently produce no heavyweight less unsatisfactory...