Word: amateurish
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...went - casual, saucy, amateurish, wonderful. For U.S. listeners, there was sadness in almost every line of the broad cast. The doughboys and doughgirls wanted above all to get home, The home front has heard little of this sort of program because of stanch adherence by NBC and CBS to their long standing ban on recorded programs, and an apparent reluctance by the military to promote direct civilian radio contact with troops abroad. In England BBC has long run recordings from far fields, found they have a big and attentive audience...
...Those amateurish prognostications do not include Cornell's many entries, because little is known of that squad, but no dire tales of budding Weismullers have emanated from the Ithaca district. The smaller New England colleges, such as Amherst, Bowdoin, and Williams, turned in only mediocre times in the New England meet last week. All in all, it should be a wide open affair in most events. If Yale were entered, things would be different...
Gradually the amateurish ensemble acquires split-second precision, an incandescent tone, emotional depth. The students, conscious of the miracle happening to them, talk of "Koussie" in awe. Said one: "We're like a Rockne-coached football team. Other teams have coaches who have adopted the Rockne system, but we have Rockne himself...
...young Boston adman and magazine publisher named A. S. Burack looked into the matter, found that 1) few good plays were written for children, 2) few schools could pay commercial royalties (averaging $5 a performance) for professional plays, 3) consequently most schools had to produce old chestnuts or the amateurish writings of pedagogues...
...them is up to par in "Without Love," but the real weakness is in the play itself. Barry couldn't decide whether he wanted to write a drawing room comedy or a social drama, so he tried to do both and came out with the two hours of fumbling, amateurish dialogue that is now being pawned off on the public at the Colonial Theatre...