Word: glib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musician who gave up her career in favor of matrimony and three children. No brilliant achievement for a professional novelist, it is probably the best fiction ever perpetrated by a cinemactress. The picture, Devil's Lottery, less sensational than The Yellow Ticket in which she last performed, is a glib and interesting melodrama in which Miss Landi performs far better than any other female novelist in the U.S. would have been able...
...glib and shallow economics which were presented as the opinion of Henry Ford "and Samuel Crowther" are as utterly discredited as a system could well be. As an authority on economic problems he is not so much atacked as utterly forgotten. In indicating a new biographical trend, Mr. Leonard's book is interesting, but the attek is made on an army defeated, on a capitalist no worse than the generality of capitalists and by virtue of his very naivete a good deal better than most of them...
...fortunate idealists who at length saw a concrete issue of their plans. The pact renouncing war as an instrument of policy was the joint creation of himself and Secretary Kellogg. It may be suggested that the realistic and even cynical Briand was not deceived by the glib pretenses of the pact, but even so he was eminently the man to gauge its psychological value. More important was the Locarno Treaty, which made an epoch in Franco-German diplomacy, and in which the influence of Streseman was vital. The League of Nations, though not of his creating, has taken deeply...
Other time-honored elements annoy the Playgoer. He denies that black-and-silver studio apartments and spirituous clinkings in the shaker can lend urbanity to commonplace repartee. He dislikes the glib patter that comes forth like a well-learned lesson from the actors' mouths. He misses that moment of hesitation which, in real life, attends the birth...
...Thus a glib young man named Robert H. Sommer explained last week to a New York Deputy Attorney General how a card index was helpful to him in selling stock in Town Topics, "society" gossip sheet. The "prospect" cards, 200 of them, were taken in a raid on the Town Topics offices by State agents who also raided Tatler & American Sketch to investigate its stock-selling tactics (TIME, Dec. 21). Samples...