Word: glib
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...seems to point to a policy of investigation, a constructive liberalism rather than a destructive radicalism. They are equipping themselves with facts rather than with fancies. Similar organizations have failed in the past because they have pursued their purpose with no better tools than a facile pen and a glib tongue...
James John ("Jimmy") Walker, New York City's glib, pinchbeck little Mayor, had to appear in court last week. He was not on trial personally, just a witness. Yet he was on trial politically because the case was that of a city magistrate charged with buying his position from Tammany Hall, of which Mayor Walker is currently the chief official product. The scandal of George F. Ewald, judge of the Traffic Court, was another climax in a long series of Democratic scandals which mischance and political adversaries had been exposing all through Mayor Walker's administration. Leading...
...evident to no one more than to the student suffering from a hard three-hour grind in New Lecture Hall. Three hours at the end of a year and proceeded by an abbreviated period of the most intensive cramming is unfair to the undergraduate, perhaps ungifted with a glib pen, who has worked steadily throughout the year and can be said to possess a comprehensive and appreciative knowledge of his subject. The final examination is, too, a boon to the man who makes a desperate last minute effort, attended by a visit to the tutoring schools, to cover the work...
...initial panic, it is most unfortunate that added disappointment should have come from his persistent coloring of real conditions. . . . Securities and commodities are lower than ever and the unemployment situation is steadily becoming worse. . . . The President issued no word of warning of the catastrophe, though after it he was glib in his explanation of the why and where fore...
...enchantment of the terrace operates suddenly to make these people's glib and pessimistic gaieties, when turned to a parody of the past, rekindle its most significant moments. Each of Ann Fields guests experiences a return in time to whatever instant of inadequacy, ecstasy, awakening or fear has been controlling a present in which death is the only feasible probability. Influenced by airs less gracious than Prospero's-airs which Stephen Field describes, in loose poetry, as blowing from alien estates in time across those in which men live-each character imagines the eccentric scientist as a salient...