Word: glib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reese went to work with a staff of efficiency engineers, reorganized the company from basement to smokestack. He built up a glib-tongued sales staff, put zip into a faltering aviation-engine division, concentrated all operations in the Muskegon plant, slashed monthly operating expenses $75,000. Soon bigtime customers like Sears, Roebuck, J. I. Case and Checker Cab came back into the fold. In 1940, sales rose 50% to $10,908,000 and the company earned $612,000 v. the preceding year's $215,000 deficit...
...This mouthy, pretentious, calculating little climber . . . this degraded knave . . . this glib, vulgar, slippery little jackleg . . . that posturing sometime reformer . . . the twenty-two goats and monkeys who composed the grand jury . . . this blank-brained menagerie, bamboozled by transparent obfuscations ... the gang of sneaking child-cheaters . . . these two low, skulking rogues . . . and the rest of the besotted judicial jackals . . . illiterate imbeciles . . . lick-spittle timeservers and chore-boys . . . aromatically crooked as a skunk's hind leg. . . . The corruption of these abject poltroons is merely one example of the corruption which infects our entire judicial system . . . these esurient, self-seeking herding jerks...
This danger is amply illustrated by the glib way in which the Council's report, after a detailed analysis of the problem, dismisses with a statement the suggestion that proposed courses on Great Authors, and American Thought and Institutions, be made compulsory. Though the Faculty recently voted to establish these courses on an elective basis, there remains a large Faculty block in favor of their being required. To cram these courses down the throats of all students is contrary to every concept of a true liberal education. It is to set up as absolute one interpretation of a problem that...
From Germany, usually prompt with glib explanations, came only thick, embarrassed silence...
Maxwell Struthers Burt of Philadelphia and Wyoming knows how to write an almost convincing simulacrum of a first-class novel. Self-assured but not glib, he respects and admires the English language, has a plentiful supply of ideas, puts enough complexity and contradiction into his characters to keep them from being stereotypes. It is like the creation of a culture pearl: an irritant is carefully introduced into the oyster, which then obediently builds up a globe of pearly substance, as smooth and gleaming to the casual glance as the real thing...