Word: glib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communists & Cough Drops. At 3:10 p.m. Florida's glib, long-nosed Claude Pepper began to speak. Between interruptions, he droned on until 6:50 p.m. Idaho's Glen Taylor, the Singing Cowboy, took the stage. He went into a routine of detailed statistical exposition, interspersed with sallies at Senators, the price of autos and the difficulties of living in a truck. He told a yarn about a Communist he worked with in a war plant in 1944. It took about 500 words and several minutes for Taylor to reach the point: ''The Communist would...
John Gunther, the most successful living practitioner of his kind of journalism (a mixture of Burton Holmes, Drew Pearson, Walter Winchell and the World Almanac) is highly readable. His writing is brisk and breezy. It is also glib, superficial, exaggerated, full of impressions passing as insights and facts palmed off as truths. This is probably the best of his books, certainly the best since Inside Europe, which had some excellent eyewitness reporting of Austria in the turbulent days of Dollfuss...
...lucky Yardlings are slated to compete for the prize promenades next week in an elimination based on glib "lines" and personal appeal as displayed during a half-minute talk with the girls. The final group will number...
...Benny, never too glib with an ad lib, has seldom had the last word. Fred is the deadliest remarksman in show business. Once Jack twitted Fred about some fictitious "signs they hold up on your program telling people when to laugh. We don't have them on our show." Fred retorted: "You must remember, Jack, we're dealing with a class of people who can read...
Wylie thinks he has the answer for juvenile delinquency, the high divorce rate, national psychoses such as Naziism and "iron curtains." He presents his answers, as usual, in ups & downs of personal sharpness and pseudo-scientific bombast, glib epigrams and gassy notions, often pungent and more often appallingly slipshod prose. At his best, Iconoclast Wylie pinpricks as sharply as H. L. Mencken ; at his worst, he is as full of unenlightening heat as Westbrook Pegler...