Word: glib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glib, handsome Arthur Lowler Osborn Fountaine Bell toiled mightily during his early years in California. He founded a profitable cult called "Mankind United," labeled himself "The Voice" and announced that he had seven doubles all capable of thinking as one. He denounced capitalism, quoted the scriptures feverishly, soon claimed 250,000 followers...
Common Ground is not glib in its affirmation of democratic faith. But it is too wordy and preachy. Under the sentimental pressure of its death-v.-dishonor plot, its tough, realistic tone slowly melts away. Anger rather than ardor makes Playwright Chodorov vibrant. His highly charged first act really gets under your skin. Thereafter, Common Ground strikes forcibly only upon...
...dozen years, suave, fox-faced John J. Anthony has been dishing out glib, categorical advice-by-radio to people with tough personal problems. (Sample Anthonyism: "[I] have found that marriage as an institution is probably the most desirable human association.") Last week, Mr. Anthony had a tough professional problem...
When World War I seemed lost, it was the "Welsh wizard" with the glib tongue and unwavering eye who patched up Britain's faith in victory. He smoothly talked the reluctant British High Command into accepting the leadership of "simple, honorable, absolutely fearless" Marshal Foch. An architect of the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations (both of which he was accused of bungling), he lived to see both curl up in the flames of World...
...Jill's formula is simple: she plays jazz records by request, gives her fan-letter writers a little glib back talk, tells gags, babbles brightly on almost any subject. Sample opening to sailors: "Hiya, fellas. This is Jill again, all set to rock the bulkheads on the old jukebox and shoot the breeze to the sons of Mother Carey...