Word: glib
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...Hollywood's Brown Derby the Chandler mission was wined, dined and propagandized by glib Proprietor Bob Cobb, head man of the Hollywood Stars and an eloquent antidraft orator. Before heading up the Coast, Happy Chandler did some talking of his own. "You haven't had major-league baseball out here," he drawled in parting. "Don't be impatient if it takes a few more years...
...political tricks again! You want the clock to be in the old Fascist position. No wonder. Black is the color of Fascism, and you are always dressed in black." Cried Gallo: "Red is the color of blood!" According to the minutes of the leftist recording secretary: "The priest was glib as usual." Asked he: "Was Garibaldi a Communist?" There was a general leftist cry: "Respect the color of Garibaldi's red shirts...
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...