Word: glibness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twice married Mr. Dykstra has a daughter Elizabeth, 24, a stepson Franz, 16, who is a junior at the University School of Cincinnati, a 2-year-old grandson named Stephen Dykstra Posey. Last week Cedric Parker of Madison's Capital Times, a Progressive organ which remorselessly hounded glib, dressy Republican Frank, interviewed Mr. Dykstra and found that "he does not wear spats, carries no cane, and doesn't care if his trousers are in press...
...London last week the British Government was not sure whether or not an imposing, glib U. S.-Canadian Jew with a machine for treating respiratory diseases was a medical knave or not. To be on the safe side Sir John Simon, head of the British Home Office, ordered David Fingard to get out of England by Jan. 15. Unless King George VI interfered, that last week seemed likely to happen. But the King's interference was not beyond the possibilities of David Fingard's career...
...Loewi discovered, Dr. Dale proved, that nervous impulses are the result of chemical action, not of electrical action as had formerly been supposed. Dr. Loewi might have had all the credit for this fundamental physiological work, if he were a more persistent researcher. A rich, energetic, glib man of medium height, he rises each morning at 5 o'clock, is in his laboratory exactly one hour later. Assistants do all the actual experimenting, for Dr. Loewi is remarkably clumsy, breaking almost everything he touches. This characteristic almost ruined Dr. Loewi's career a decade ago. He asserted that...
...scholars had no reason to complain of lack of public attention. Scripps-Howard's glib Columnist Westbrook Pegler wrote two pieces about what he referred to as "Highbrows' Old Home Week." A new extension of geometry which made it appear that the whole is not equal to the sum of the parts (see below) served as a pat allusion for an editorial writer commenting on the cordial meeting between Alf Landon and Franklin Roosevelt (see p. 13), for a sportswriter gloating over the winning spurt of the New York Giants. A letter arrived from the editor of Beauty...
...Chicago, glib, young polo-playing Charles Foster Glore, president of Chicago Corp. as well as a partner in the brokerage house of Field, Glore & Co., told newshawks that Chicago Corp., an investment company, and A. G. Becker & Co., investment bankers, had bought Continental Illinois National Bank's holdings in Middle West Corp. Chicago Corp. takes three-fifths of the purchase, Becker & Co the rest. The price: $12 a share, giving Continental, in which Chicago Corp. has large holdings, a small profit on its once forlorn investment in Middle West Corp...