Word: glib
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Katherine St. George, glib, chic, greying first cousin to F.D.R. and first-string hostess in New York's fashionable Tuxedo Park; business and G.O.P. committeewoman who worked like a piston on her campaign and announced that one of her goals was to "have every union member a capitalist." She had the backing of Ham Fish, for what it was worth. Republican St. George will be one of two new women in the House.* The other: Democrat Georgia Lusk, first woman ever to be elected to Congress from New Mexico...
...glib, dreamy-eyed kid in Los Angeles' teeming Central Avenue neighborhood, Charlie Edwards felt himself a cut above the other Negro youngsters. He had bold ideas of becoming a great writer or famous legal light. But school bored him. When unappreciative teachers filled his report card with F's, Charlie brightly forged them all into...
...represented. Bob always said and did the right thing. He was Tradition: Yale, Harvard Law, handsome manners, a law career with a junior partnership at the end of a long, hard row. Tom was the new thing, the break with all tradition, the sloppy dresser, the fountain of glib ideas that would soon lift him from an underpaid Columbia instructorship to Washington and eminence as a New Deal speechwriter...
...loudly or as softly with such clarity, brilliance, and unity. The first desk work is equalled only by that of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and one still instinctively feels that each work is an event of major importance to the musicians, so complete is their concentration on music and conductor. Glib writers, wallowing in the ecstasy of criticism, too often overlook the fact that the Orchestra is what it is because of Dr. Koussovitzky. As an orchestra builder and leader, he has no superior...
...time hero & heroine begin to wriggle out of the underworld's clutches, the unwinding plot is too glib and fast to follow. So are the sociological overtones of the young couple's last-reel decision to starve in an artist's garret rather than gorge in a butler's pantry...