Word: feckless
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...Feckless Secretary Schwellenbach admitted, "I'm getting awfully tired," but added wistfully that he was still hopeful of an "early solution...
...pictures that he has sung at all, and it's a good song (Old Joe Clark). But the audience knows something is amiss the first time Gary draws his shooting iron-and almost maims himself. Soon he is firing gags from both hips. As a feckless, peace-loving but irritatable cowboy, he gets into a series of half-serious, half-hilarious scrapes, climaxed by a fierce exchange of boots at ten paces with the desperate bandit...
...Japanese police; makes the romantic acquaintance of a half-Chinese beauty (Sylvia Sidney) whose access to high places stirs his suspicions; unmasks the crookery of a fellow-journalist (Rhys Williams); helps drive Tanaka to harakiri. For comic relief he makes a monkey, again & again, out of his feckless shadower (Leonard Strong). He uses judo, to thrilling and protracted effect, to chop down huge, shaven-pated Heavy Jack Halloran. Finally, in front of the U.S. Embassy one night, he confronts what looks like the entire secret police force of Japan. His tag line, spat at an oleaginous police chief (Marvin Mueller...
...Hirohito's earliest mentors were the war lords who had made modern Japan a power-stern General Maresuke Nogi, the victor of Port Arthur, and Admiral Heihatiro Togo, who, at Tsushima, had sunk most of Russia's feckless fleet in one of history's decisive naval battles...
Actress Taylor plays a middleaged, down-at-heel former Southern belle, long ago deserted by her husband, and living with her feckless dreamer of a son (Eddie Dowling) and shy, scared, crippled daughter (Julie Haydon) in a St. Louis alley. Nagging, grandiloquizing about her mint-julepy, porticoed youth, absurd in her foolishness, pathetic in her pretensions, she wants passionately to get her daughter married, demands endlessly that her son bring "gentlemen callers" to the house. At length he brings one-a gum-chewing extrovert who, though touched by the girl's plight, counts the minutes till he can escape...