Word: glib
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Artist August Henkel had a glib explanation for everything. He produced a photograph of mustached Franz Reichelt, pioneer parachutist killed in a leap from the Eiffel Tower, which had struck him as a "stunning design," formed the basis of the Stalin-like figure. The two Leftist pilots, said he, symbolized the spirit of self-sacrifice in aeronautical advance rather than political ideology. As for the red star, some one of his many assistants had probably made a slip. Lieut. Colonel Brehon Burke Somervell, New York City's driving WPAdministrator, promptly ordered three of the four murals taken down, cremated...
...Wolfgang Paalen, a Netherlands-born Parisian, whose particular Freudian fairyland looks like an Arthur Rackham landscape that has begun to putrefy. A member of Paris' "younger school" of dream-painters, Surrealist Paalen is fervently opposed to Old Master Salvador Dali. Reason: Dali is getting too much gravy. Glib, stylish and frightening as last year's millinery, Wolfgang Paalen's cobwebby paintings at the Julien Levy Gallery are constructed in a method all his own. Surrealist Paalen smears his canvas with an even coat of white paint, then holds it over a burning candle, gets...
Formula. Unlike other fashion magazines Mademoiselle has a collegiate atmosphere. It appeals to women between 17 and 30, and its editorial voice sounds more like the glib chatter of 17 than like 30's cool sophistication. It is definitely cute...
...believe he is) who had offices at 612 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, he will recall that he owes me $10. About five years ago he had me rush down to his office, sit down at his typewriter and dash off some sixteen pages of script full of glib nothings I was obliged to think up while typing, for another program he had thought up called Musical Tintypes. . . . HOWARD W. RAPPORT Chicago...
...Lothrop Stoddard, Brookline, Mass. political lecturer and author, whose racial theories (he used to frighten the U. S. with the yellow peril) make him persona grata to Nazis, went recently to Germany as correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Last week glib Dr. Stoddard got an interview with Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. Addressing the little doctor as a "master psychologist," Interviewer Stoddard asked how come the Germany of 1940, unlike that of 1914, has no hurrah spirit...