Word: glib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some $4,000,000 worth of copy annually for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn in Manhattan. Few months before the stock-market crash, Adman Benton, then 29, and Adman Bowles, then 28, went into the New York Secretary of State's office, came out as Benton & Bowles, Inc. Glib Partner Bowles began to write copy. Aggressive Partner Benton went out to sell...
...news of Mildred McAfee's appointment, which reached the slender, curly-topped educator just three days after her 36th birthday, was as exciting to Vassar as to Wellesley women. The Vassar class of 1920 recalls Mildred McAfee as a fairly good hockeyist and basketballer who was glib enough at debating to help defeat Wellesley on one occasion. As a matter of fact, Vassarette McAfee is something of an academic cosmopolite. She was born on the campus of Park College at Parkville, Mo., founded by her grandfather. After Vassar she made a grand tour of Eastern & Midwestern male and female...
Definitely convalescent last week was the Lord Privy Seal, spruce young Captain Anthony Eden, who was put to bed with "heart strain" after his round of diplomatic fencing bouts with Hitler, Stalin and Pilsudski (TIME, April 1 et seq.). Chirped a glib, anonymous political correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express: "They refer to 'heart strain'. . . . The actual trouble, I understand, is thrombosis" [clogging of an artery...
...Germany Nazi stands for National Socialist. In the Netherlands N. S. B. stands for National Socialistische Beweging. Glib Dutch youths explain that their N. S. B. combines the best features of Italian Fascism and German Naziism with the drawbacks of neither and serviceable Dutch additions. Queen Wilhelmina, not to be hornswoggled, fired from his fine soft government job some years ago the founder of the movement, Dike-Builder A. A. Mussert, who had been Hydraulic Engineer of Utrecht Province...
...suburbs. Alternately dazzled by his wife's charm and enraged by her breezy feminine sophistry, Dick Shale (Bramwell Fletcher) is equally determined to exploit his invention on his own, buy back and return to his family's farm. Angela's chief weapon is her glib ability to change the subject of an argument. Slow-witted Dick's most effective device is to throttle her when she does so. That he ultimately gets the farm is due more to clumsy main force than to tactical skill in debate...