Word: glib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unless his anti-Tammany ticket was accepted "as is," swore Mr. La Guardia. he would take the field himself. In 1929, as a fusion nominee, he gave glib little "Jimmy" Walker an embarrassing time, charging to Tammany most of the scandals later revealed in the Seabury investigation. But his "radicalism" lost him most of the Republican silk-stocking vote...
Such was the statistic which rolled last week from the glib mimeographs of the U. S. Crop Reporting Board. To men wise in the ways of wheat, the figure signified the probability...
...photographer must be able to handle cameras varying from a vest pocket size to those carried most conveniently in a taxi, but besides nimble fingers he must possess a glib tongue with which to persuade prospective victims to pose for him. In short, press photography is the art of telling a news story in pictures...
...there would be more time and incentive to do it. It would consist, roughly, in the resurrection of interesting and significant cases, or in specific and general treatment of modern law, dealing with its trends and peculiarities. In order that men taking this course will be more informed than glib, it should be given only in the third year. This will allow the students to have spent two uninterrupted years in steady accumulation and assimilation of the ground-work of the law. That process of laying the foundations is usually felt to be interesting though hard; but it is generally...
Evensong (by Beverley Nichols & Edward Knoblock; Arch Selwyn & Sir Barry Jackson, producers). Glib, ultra-British young Beverley Nichols used to be employed on the personal staff of Dame Nellie Melba. He cashed in on this experience when he wrote Evensong, a novel about a declining diva's race against time. Dramatized and produced in London, the story had a remunerative run. Produced for the first time on a U. S. stage, Evensong again sets one to wondering if the English often go to the theatre just to get out of the rain...