Word: glib
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When World War I seemed lost, it was the "Welsh wizard" with the glib tongue and unwavering eye who patched up Britain's faith in victory. He smoothly talked the reluctant British High Command into accepting the leadership of "simple, honorable, absolutely fearless" Marshal Foch. An architect of the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations (both of which he was accused of bungling), he lived to see both curl up in the flames of World...
...Jill's formula is simple: she plays jazz records by request, gives her fan-letter writers a little glib back talk, tells gags, babbles brightly on almost any subject. Sample opening to sailors: "Hiya, fellas. This is Jill again, all set to rock the bulkheads on the old jukebox and shoot the breeze to the sons of Mother Carey...
There was a ripple of laughter when Rhode Island's usually glib Senator Theodore Francis Green got his history mixed, gave Colorado's six ballots mistakenly to Roosevelt & Truman instead of to Dewey & Bricker. But with that little mixup over, the scene went on sedately to Wallace's final formal announcement of a fact already known to the entire world. Now at last it was official: Roosevelt & Truman had received 432 electoral votes, Dewey & Bricker...
These pin-up rates for transatlantic service enlivened the continuing Civil Aeronautics Board hearings for North Atlantic route certificates. At the same time these glib rate-cutting promises were committing airlines to start their postwar services at rates as low as 3½? a mile-lower than some experts thought could be achieved for three or four years. If transatlantic traffic fails to come up to the airlines' optimistic expectations, operating costs might prove difficult to cover...
...small, bald, mustached man, General Fuller was retired from the British Army in 1933 for a sharp (and justified) cry for reforms in army mechanizations. Later, he was a candidate for Parliament on Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist ticket. He argued the Axis case, appeared with a glib Briton named William Joyce, who became better known as "Lord Haw Haw" (see cut) when England faced destruction. On the war's eve, Hitler invited General Fuller to his birthday celebration. (Said Radio Berlin: ". . . The English genius...