Word: haphazard
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Last Year's Hero. In Boston the state of professional football is still as low as in the days of Laundryman Marshall. Last year a half dozen enterprising sports promoters, with an eye on the luscious profits made by the National League clubs, organized a haphazard collection of teams ambitiously called the American League. Before the season ended the league dejectedly disbanded. This year hopeful sports promoters tried again. Most hopeful were a group of Bostonians, who got together a number of obscure ex-college football players, fished for the support of Boston's many Irishmen by calling...
...Country Club, observing that no one had yet filed for the Republican Congressional primaries in their district, egged on their friend to put in his name. Golfer Jenks, who in the previous 70 years of his career had never given politics a thought, did exactly that. Result of this haphazard gesture has been for Golfer Jenks one of the most tantalizing experiences in the history of U. S. legislation...
Artists & Models (Paramount) begins with the Yacht Club Boys hysterically assembling a musical comedy production number for Chairman Mac Brewster (Jack Benny) of the Artists & Models Ball. That Chairman Brewster's terse comment, "It stinks," does not describe the haphazard entertainment that follows is mainly owing to the scenes which Jack Benny relieves with his deprecating brand of drollery. Otherwise Artists & Models, with Director Raoul Walsh struggling to wedge into it enough people and music for three shows, would have difficulty adding...
...slipping Equity were heard in 1929 when President Gillmore descended upon Hollywood to persuade that still rambunctious community to join up with Equity. He returned to Broadway with no cinema contracts. It was not until in 1933 that Hollywood, by then feeling public stirrings of social-consciousness, formed a haphazard Screen Actors Guild which, like Equity, received its charter from American Federation of Labor through a loose-knitted "International" organization called Associated Actors & Artistes of America (A. A. A. A.) Not even Equity members were sure whether it was victory or a concession when Gillmore thereupon laid down...
...road when Bertha was an infant. Bertha's "first playhouse was a box car." Her progressive education began early: her teachers were labor agitators, I. W. W.'s, prostitutes. From their talk Bertha picked up her three S's: sex, strikes, socialism. Included in her haphazard schooling were two years during the War in an Arkansas cooperative colony run by radicals and conscientious objectors, where she read William Morris, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Zola. When her mother came back from an anti-War tour with a young Irish poet in tow, they all went to Seattle, where...