Word: glib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earlier years. Li'l Abner's creator, who was born Alfred Gerald Caplin in New Haven, Conn., in 1909 (he shortened his name to Capp in signing the strip, changed it legally in 1949), grew up amid a ferocious struggle with poverty. His father, Otto Caplin-a glib, cheerful, optimistic man who studied law at Yale, had a dilettante's interest in art and nursed continual schemes for making his fortune-managed to eke out only the barest living. It was largely his mother's courage and resourcefulness that kept the family a going concern...
...glib master of ceremonies, he gave them everything they came for and more. When he settled down to the piano, with clarinet, drums, bass fiddle and a "pleasant" string quartet behind him ("You can die in a cocktail lounge with a trio"), he showed he could just about play the pants off any pianist in town. He was a hit, all right. Like many another jazz musician, Joe, whose face has gotten harder at 33, finds that good playing is no longer enough for tapping the big money. But he says, "Playing the piano is very important to me. While...
Endlessly she nags her son, a dreamer trapped in a shipping clerk's job, to bring "a gentleman caller" to the house. At length he brings a warehouse co-worker (Kirk Douglas), an ambitious self-improver, glib, personable and halfsincere. Putting the best face on an uneasy situation, Douglas enchants the girl with compliments, a dance, a kiss. Then he dashes her by owning up to a fiancée and making an awkward exit...
Writing in a rhetoric-ridden English which he learned as a student at Amherst and Harvard, Kase repeats many of the glib imperialist excuses that Westerners have heard before, e.g., the characterization of the China invasion as an anti-Communist crusade, the explanation of Japan's joining the Axis as "a means of improving Japan's diplomatic position visa-vis the democratic powers" in order to secure peace. Yet Author Kase's hatred for the army's trigger-happy expansionists sounds sincere enough. And he has little more regard for the navy, although he records that...
...Chicago nightclub circuit of the 1930s knew Lou Reynolds as a handsome glib master of ceremonies who used to wow the customers with his own parody of My Blue Heaven. Lou Reynolds' real name was Louis Sebille, and that was the name he used during World War II when he flew 68 combat missions as a Marauder pilot, wound up with major's leaves and a chest full of medals...