Word: glib
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...Good Americans (by Sidney J. and Laura West Perelman; Courtney Burr, producer) is a glib notation on the way some U. S. citizens, who live year-round in Paris, drink, wisecrack, pose and suffer. A tall, indolent young writer (Fred Keating) vaguely wishes he could afford to marry a striding, firm-chinned Paris fashion expert with a dazzling smile (Hope Williams). He is reduced to living off commissions from Paris stores to which he steers rich U. S. girls, finally resigns himself to the idea of marrying one. With laconic bitterness Hope Williams counters by encouraging a rich New York...
Leader of the July strike was a young Irish redhead named Martin Ryan. He was president of the U. M. W. local at Colonial No. 4 mine of H. C. Frick Coke Co., U. S. Steel Corp. subsidiary. His glib influence over fellow workers was greater than that of Leader Lewis whose code activities in Washington Miner Ryan distrusted. He harangued the men out of the pits when Lewis implored them to stick. He was the last to consent to a compromise with the operators. As delay followed delay on the code, he blew hot words on the miners...
...this must seem both improbable and undesirable. Perhaps the day for fulsome explanation before achievement has passed, perhaps no intelligent man today can bring himself to speak with gether with his reluctance to speak at the glib certitude which speeches of this kind imply. But certainly there can be little doubt that changes of any deep and far reaching kind, of college revolutions which eugaud the Sunday supplements of Mr. Hearst, are not imminent in an era of strict financial retrenchment...
...heroism, in favor of the leading lady, and returns to her home. The play is nevertheless a success, but the manager and the playwright ignore it to hurry after her with separate proposals of marriage. Surprisingly, the manager arrives first. Years of novelizing have given Booth Tarkington a glib though obvious technic which he employs with smooth professional skill. Lily Mars repeats his familiar formula of the heroine who is gaily and innocently wanton, and much better at heart than she lets on to be. Not stage people but marionettes are the characters of this book, jiggling from visible wires...
...Finney also has a son. His name is Ronald Tucker Finney, graduated from Cornell in 1921, trained for several years as cashier of his father's bank in Neosho Falls. Two years ago Ronald Finney, 6 ft. tall, plump, glib, goodnatured and a lavish spender by Kansas standards, set up in business for himself. He dealt in bonds. He speculated in commodities. He hired an elaborate suite, partly for use as an office, in Topeka's Jayhawk Hotel. He ran up heavy toll bills telephoning to his brokers...