Word: amateurish
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...stink remains in Reader Larsen's story of Franklin Delano-and most of it clings to TIME's smart college boys for publicizing it [TIME, Sept. 5]. Your good American readers respect our highest National office, whether or not they agree with its current incumbent. It was amateurish and cheap to offend the President, his office, and your readers of good taste and the essential proprieties...
...House Committee on Un-American Activities headed by ham-handed Representative Martin Dies of Texas, after hearings in Washington which revealed it as nothing but an ill-planned, amateurish Red-hunt, last week heard some news of fascist propaganda but soon got back to its Red theme. From the testimony of Joseph B. Matthews, onetime head of the League Against War & Fascism (now League for Peace & Democracy), the Committee learned that "the Communist Party relies heavily upon the carelessness or indifference of thousands of prominent citizens in lending their names for its propaganda purposes. For example, the French newspaper...
This astonishing brawl between Executive and Judiciary had its origins in a Democratic primary squabble last spring. The Governorship, from which rich, ambitious, amateurish Mr. Earle hopes to spring to the U. S. Senate, was coveted by Mr. Earle's Attorney General, Charles J. Margiotti who, like George Earle, was formerly a Republican. Mr. Margiotti charged Mr. Earle's colleagues-upon whose behavior he was presumably a behind-scenes expert-with horrid crimes. The Governor bade his" Attorney General substantiate the charges and prosecute. When Margiotti failed to do so, Earle fired him (TIME...
This struck British statesmen as amateurish, fantastic, dangerous. When the Prime Minister rose in the House of Commons he spoke with an air of firmness which fired Associated Press to fire Manhattan's World-Telegram to headline eight columns wide: "BRITAIN WARNS GERMANY-WILL MEET FORCE WITH FORCE." It was the Prime Minister's character and reputation, rather than his words, which gave this impression for Neville Chamberlain actually said: "The hard fact is that nothing could have arrested this action by Germany unless we and others with us had been prepared to use force to prevent...
...movie, however, gives nothing new to the screen, and it fails to realize the many advantages the screen has over the stage. The directing therefore seems amateurish as far as modern technique is concerned...