Word: glib
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...screen has an inestimable advantage over the character in Katharine Brush's best seller: he is flesh & blood; and so, with more decorative effect, is Claudette Colbert as the heroine. Their easy, natural playing brings the brittle characters to life, gets the most out of the glib, skillful, and rather shallow little story about a newsman who quarrelled with his wife because she made him feel inferior and made up with her when he found he could stand on his own legs. Silliest shot: Claudette Colbert going blind after drinking some liquor intended for sportswriter consumption. Claudette Colbert...
Long have Drys been annoyed by glib references to the Canadian liquor sale system as an ideal solution of the problem of Prohibition. Again and again was the House Judiciary Committee at its hearings on null of the 18th Amendment besought by Wet witnesses to observe the virtues of what Canada has done...
Merchant Rappaport proved to be a glib gentleman who denied any knowledge of a counterfeiting scheme to loot Monte Carlo. Though he carried genuine casino chips in his pocket, he swore he was the guiltless tool of an unnamed citizen...
...Bloch and performed by George Jessel. They make it quite clear that he balked at adultery not because of lofty scruples, but because he was afraid Neris would ultimately fling him to the crocodiles, her customary farewell to outworn lovers. Actor Jessel, swarthy, expressive young Hebrew, makes Joseph as glib, crafty and loquacious as a Jewish press agent, driving bargains which Potiphar, played by the splendidly silly Ferdinand Gottschalk, is too stupid to see, digging irrigation ditches because he does not believe in the pluvial generosity of the Egyptian gods, and finally escaping execution by persuading his gaoler that...
...meaner in heart than Calvin;" the boy from the South who had killed his father; Nitro Dugan, the roving yegg, who had presided at the hobo "kangaroo trial" and execution of One Lung Riley, the ex-bum who had turned railroad detective and knew too much; Brother Jonathon, glib medicine-show barker, pretentious charlatan, kindly man of the world; Hypo Sleigh, the dope fiend, under whose crazed imagination the world is like a nightmare under a magnifying glass; Dippy, the pyromaniac, to whom the lighting of a match is like a shot of whiskey; Eddie the pretty pervert, landed...