Word: glibness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Oscar Levant, 32, composer, pianist, glib-libbing expert on Canada Dry's Information Please program; and June Gilmartin, 24, cinemactress (June Gale); he for the second time, she for the first; in Fredericksburg...
...John Kieran, omniscient sports columnist for the New York Times; grumpish F. P. A. (Franklin Pierce Adams), old-school New York Post columnist "who can't remember a thing that's happened in the last ten years, but remembers everything before that"; glib Oscar Levant, composer, super-pianist, gag-stacked Broad-wayfarer-are acknowledged by listeners as U. S.'s most knowing know-it-alls. Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fadiman is famous for beating the experts to the pun while he puts the pick of 75,000 questions submitted each week by listeners...
...unprejudiced answer. All the rest are so worded that the voter has little or no choice. Number Three bluntly states that if we refuse to reply "Yes" on curbing war profits, we will automatically be "drawn into war by the pressure of munitions makers and war profiteers." The same glib technique is used in Number Five. With the assurance of a seer, the H.S.U. charges that unless we nod our heads to legislation for protection of "civil liberties, labor and social security standards," the War Crisis will be used to undermine American democracy. Again in Number Six, the "democratic extension...
...galleries were more than half empty; the press doodled or played word-puzzles in the press gallery. Shockproof to the familiar roar of the Isolationists' big guns, the reporters sat up and took notice only when two new cannoneers appeared: homespun, silent William John Bulow of South Dakota, glib, emotional Dennis Chavez of New Mexico...
Stressing the billiard facilities and the use of the lounges in the club building, the glib-tongued super-salesman was on his way to a small fortune when he unwittingly approached two Seniors with his nefarious proposition, and was soundly squelched...