Word: glibness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the past hundred years, the cause for Indian independence has been peculiarly marked by a lack of action: by vague peregrinations of "passive resistance" by Eastern political religiosos in Bombay and Calcutta, by glib protestations of Occidental parlor progressives in London and Washington, and by the well-meaning, but weak movements of British diplomats between Simla and New Delhi. All have realized the genuine desire of the Indian for liberty, but all have tried to build from the top, speaking of the establishment of ministries and legislatures and agencies, and overlooking, in their plans, proposals for pulling the average...
...stockholders of the Panhandle Producing and Refining Co., sleek, glib Serge Rubinstein, 37, last week made a self-sacrificing gesture: he resigned as president and chairman to save the stockholders "embarrassment...
Housman could indulge in depths of unblushing self-pity; but he could also write the magnificent Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle. His gift for epigram and poetic conceit was too glib, but he could also write...
...Kelly is no glib, ad-libbing Little Flower. Hewing to a prepared script, he skittered carefully, successfully through a dull speech on crime, written by an assistant. If his staffmen can hold him rigidly to a script in future broadcasts, they may be able to keep Boss Ed's foot out of his mouth...
...this hallooing was touched off by a trim, glib Manhattanite, Alfred D. McKelvy, a former longshoreman, clerk, gold prospector (he panned $87 worth of gold in six months) and adman. McKelvy got his idea in 1939 while sharing the apartment of a lady friend (absent) with another man. The roommate rummaged through cosmetics he found, just for fun gave himself the works-including a bubble bath and a cologne rubdown. He enjoyed it so much that McKelvy thought: "Why wouldn't other...