Word: amateurishly
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Even the newsreels had been taken by British cameramen; the first films to appear were unusually amateurish. The appearance in the news pictures of Ensign Franklin Jr. and Captain Elliott Roosevelt, fully uniformed, wearing the shoulder aiguillettes of Presidential aides, seemed to exasperate many a U.S. citizen who likes everything about the President but his family. When Lord Beaverbrook, British Minister of Supply, turned up suddenly in Washington, all these cumulative exasperations were expressed by a local wit who snarled: "Beaverbrook came over to see if the British had left anything...
...More amateurish than British War Relief, Bundles for Britain is also more Social. It has taken in $1,654,000 in cash and material gifts (plus two live zebra finches, a carload of diapers, other miscellany). The output of its 700 chapters, 650,000 workers has been 900,000 knitted articles, 20,000 hospital garments. Besides clothing, it has gathered 350,000 surgical instruments, 58 mobile canteens, 22 ambulances, many other necessities. Last week Bundles adopted 19 London hospitals, promised them funds to repair fire-and-bomb damage...
...capable young comedian in two laughable acts. Estelle Stahl provides a couple of the better moments, and the Willison-Bates number, "What Noise Annoys an Oyster," is first-rate. With more attention to its own better examples, a generous use of the stage hook on some of its amateurish singing and acting, the Players' Theatre should get many a bleat at Boston before shearing time in the spring...
...produce the kind of art the government likes. Such art is apt to be expert, professional-at its worst, stereotyped, imitative, monotonous. Under a democracy, artists produce the kind of art they themselves like. Such art is apt to be personal, varied, lacking in precise standards-at its worst, amateurish, purposeless, sometimes egotistically incomprehensible. But at its best, democratic art flowers in endless variety, makes up in flashes of brilliant originality what it lacks in consistent workmanship...
When Nazi planes dropped fire bombs on London last summer, they restored an age-old weapon to use after centuries of neglect. Last week a leading expert on this ancient weapon revealed that the Nazis were clumsy and amateurish incendiarists at best. Tall, dressy Colonel Joaquin Enrique Zanetti, Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, is the No. 1 U. S. pyrotechnician. Last week he published a concise handbook of arson: Fire from the Air-the ABC of Incendiaries (Columbia University Press...