Word: glib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Admirers of glib, arm-flailing Evangelist Dr. Billy Graham, 31, swear his voice can penetrate a case-hardened conscience like a jackhammer going through a pile of schist. Last week Dr. Billy appeared before a joint session of the Georgia legislature to urge an old-fashioned revival among the state's sinners, and within two hours the senate had passed a bill to make the state bone dry. Cried Senator Tom E. Rich, during the breast-beating which preceded a 34-to-5 vote: "I used to go home drunk and stumble over . . . my children...
Even Loudun's glib gossips found their tongues slow to wag when, soon after the war, the unassailable Marie Besnard was apparently attracted by a handsome German hired hand and. ex-prisoner of war 30 years her junior. Marie's husband, Leon Besnard, began spending more & more time in the town's bistros and complaining bitterly that he was no longer master in his own home...
Whirlpool's one bright spot is Broadway Actor Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac), playing his second movie role. As a glib, impossibly clever rogue, he steals every scene. But it is only petty larceny. Miss Tierney's vacuous look (not a new look) makes it hard to tell when she is hypnotized and when...