Word: glib
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...Glib Dick Grossman, who devotes much of his time to warnings of sinister U.S. machinations to dominate Europe, now unabashedly argued: "I suggest that a platoon of American soldiers is a far greater deterrent to the Russians than a division of German soldiers...
...other Post exploit equaled its exposure of Charles Ponzi, the foreign-exchange juggler of 1920 whose glib tongue talked Bostonians out of millions. City Editor Eddie Dunn, who got his facts from Ponzi's disgruntled pressagent, scooped the city with the news that Ponzi was actually a Canadian ex-convict. His story pricked the bubble and started Ponzi to jail...
...moved into a flossy, Joseph Urban-designed Manhattan duplex apartment and settled down at a 15-ft. semicircular desk. But the Depression had left its mark on facile Writer Brush. She began to analyze her own brittle-youth-of-the-'20s stories, and her once glib pen slowed down and stalled. "When you start saying 'Why?' she explained, "it throws...
...trouble was that Nakian felt he was crowding the "hairline between greatness and corniness." His work seemed too glib, too academic-and commercial. Nakian settled back to study his favorite masters-Titian, Rubens, Van Gogh, Cezanne-and read avidly through the Greek classics. The classics, he felt, had everything a sculptor could want, especially the story of how Jupiter disguised himself as a bull and carried the fair Europa off to Crete. Nakian spent five years pummeling and twisting the clay for a huge terra-cotta abstract of the Rape of Europa. "It was a tremendous, wild figure, more bizarre...
...plenty ... He will foster science, but only to have armament makers use one marvel of science to destroy another . . . He will even speak of Christ and say that he was the greatest man who ever lived ... In the midst of all his seeming love for humanity and his glib talk of freedom and equality he will have one great secret which he will tell to no one: he will not believe in God . . . Jews, Protestants and Catholics should unite against a common foe . . . We may not be able to meet in the same pew-would...