Word: glib
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...Mattern, tersely warned by the Soviet Government, will keep his distance above Lake Baikal. For the glory of the World's Fair he flies on, and his daring will reinforce the glib Mr. Holmes and the accommodating Areturus to publicize Chicago's latest exposition. Mr. Charles Dawes thought he would not spend any money on publicity. Mr. Rufus Dawes thought he would spend ten thousand dollars. The compromise is Mr. Mattern...
Unless his anti-Tammany ticket was accepted "as is," swore Mr. La Guardia. he would take the field himself. In 1929, as a fusion nominee, he gave glib little "Jimmy" Walker an embarrassing time, charging to Tammany most of the scandals later revealed in the Seabury investigation. But his "radicalism" lost him most of the Republican silk-stocking vote...
Such was the statistic which rolled last week from the glib mimeographs of the U. S. Crop Reporting Board. To men wise in the ways of wheat, the figure signified the probability...
...photographer must be able to handle cameras varying from a vest pocket size to those carried most conveniently in a taxi, but besides nimble fingers he must possess a glib tongue with which to persuade prospective victims to pose for him. In short, press photography is the art of telling a news story in pictures...
...there would be more time and incentive to do it. It would consist, roughly, in the resurrection of interesting and significant cases, or in specific and general treatment of modern law, dealing with its trends and peculiarities. In order that men taking this course will be more informed than glib, it should be given only in the third year. This will allow the students to have spent two uninterrupted years in steady accumulation and assimilation of the ground-work of the law. That process of laying the foundations is usually felt to be interesting though hard; but it is generally...