Word: glib
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...beneath their ragged blue overalls, extended their strike for higher produce prices from Sioux City to Council Bluffs, across the Missouri River from busy Omaha. On seven highways leading into town they used placards, planks and palaver to turn back truckloads of milk, eggs, hogs and cattle. Sometimes a glib driver argued his way through the picket lines but not often...
...since 1914 is to look twice at any international gold brick which the Yazoos of New York and the Yapoos of Washington offer us. We bought one in 1917 and another in 1928 and hardly have we begun to pay for them than another is presented with the same glib prospectus...
...Express glib Jockey Beary told a tale of how he has been the secret intermediary between the British and Free State governments in recent weeks, claiming to have arranged President de Valera's original face-to-face meeting at No. 10 Downing Street with Premier James Ramsay MacDonald (TIME, June...
Grove & Davila. Jaunty and glib, Colonel Marmaduke Grove has figured in several Chilean revolutions, attempted one in 1930, using for purposes of getting into Chile from Argentina the airplane Friendship in which Passenger Amelia Earhart first crossed the Atlantic. Captured by troops loyal to Dictator Ibanez, the Colonel was exiled to Easter Island. There he pumped the Chilean Governor of this colony so full of revolutionary ideas that Governor & Colonel set out in a small boat to Tahiti, later made their way to France. In July 1931, after Dictator Ibanez was ousted, Colonel Grove returned to Chile, has been intriguing...
...banked alone or in joint account with others $431,258.92. Officially the Walker methods were new to the American Medical Association and the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care, organizations which are striving mightily to keep doctors from poverty. Dr. Walker, a corpulent, quiet contrast to his slim, glib brother, made his explanations to Judge Samuel Seabury, inquisitor of the Scandals of New York...