Word: inept
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...evening at the opera, Tenor Franz was in the midst of a favorite aria when out upon the stage from her box climbed a young person later identified as one Sylvia Peres of Italy. Apparently overcome by an exhibitionist impulse, she threw herself into a vigorous and not inept display of fancy dance steps. Tenor Franz stood speechless. The orchestra stopped, gaping. Mlle. Peres danced on with abandon, coming to a climax with one heel on Tenor Franz's shoulder. The police, unable to arrest her, lectured her severely...
Great Lakes Aircraft Sirs: Having been an enthusiastic reader of TIME for several years, and the foremost advocate of its value as an advertising medium in this organization, it was with great dismay that I read the singularly inept reference to Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation which appeared in the Sept. 9 issue under the heading of "Aeronautics." . . . Were your correspondents as adept at gathering facts as they seem to be at ferreting out middle names, the following might easily have been unearthed: i) That Cleveland is justly proud of Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation, and would rather have as its representative...
...eager candidate for the Gillett seat in the Senate is onetime Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller. Last week, disgusted with Committeeman Liggett's inept maneuvre, he called him a "Jonah," said he ought to be thrown "overboard...
Fashions in Love (Paramount). Like all plays good enough to be imitated but not good enough to be classics, The Concert by Herman Bahr, presented long ago on the legitimate stage by Leo Ditrichstein, has been discredited by inept adaptations of some of its best effects. Fashions in Love is the screen name for The Concert. By any name it remains a very good farce. It is concerned with the marital infidelities of an elderly and temperamental pianist whose wife gets him back by the not wholly startling method of pretending to be in love with the husband...
...last week, the telephone rang in the home of William Banks. He awoke, answered it. It was the wrong number. Had the telephone not rung, he, his wife and their five children would have died. They were all partly overcome by escaping gas. Banks opened windows, telephoned police, thanked inept telephone operators...