Word: inept
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...original Sultan of Swat, Wallace Beery struts what was once the Great White Way, flirts with the girls of the Florodora Sextette, misbehaves toward his sweetheart Camille (Zazu Pitts) in a sporty buggy, thus forcing her to trudge a dusty homeward path; in short, does all the inept things possible for a lionized lump. The moot point is, why did he strike out with the bases full? The breath of scandal is finally deodorized by Luck and Love. The home-run king reigns on in left-handed magnificence...
...that of normal ones. While the normal ones are not brilliantly depicted, the eccentrics are so clumsily drawn that Dorinda, had she been a reader of the book instead of a character in it, would have been sure that they were not real. Yet Elizabeth Jordan is far from inept. Occasionally there are breezy paragraphs, her minor figures live, Bumper Product
...eyed audience. All would have been decent, had not Rocky Morse (Chester Morris), first assistant safecracker, proved disobedient and plugged the doubly unfortunate Goldberg in the forbidden parts. For this treacherous, unwarranted homicide, Director-General Fenmore plugs Rocky. Two young innocents become entangled in the brutal but inept police proceedings. To save them, Fenmore tells all, proving he has a heart of gold and a sense for tabloid headlines. It is the sort of play that sends small boys and big boys out of the theatre hoping some day to work up to the nobility of banditry. It is, unhappily...
...soon it was all lost by the charming but impractical Viennese. Department stores passed into Christian hands but the aisles were vacant, management was stupid, fashion languished. The krone, dropping dizzily, turned today's newly-rich bourgeois into tomorrow's bankrupt. Theatres closed or gave dull plays with inept actors. Tens of thousands of Viennese apartments stood vacant. Viennese husbands moped; without the competition of smart Jewesses, their wives wore Scotch tweeds, Alpine woollens, no cosmetics. The tearful partings of polyracial relatives only faintly reflected the hardships suffered later by ladies of joy, jewelers, restaurateurs, bartenders. The newspapers became colorless...
...their excellences and taste fluctuate. The spectacle of an institution as old and honored as the Harvard Lampoon (monthly funnypaper) falling (as it did the past autumn) into the hands of editors callow and ribald, is neither unusual nor significant. The Lampoon's coarse insults to Princeton, subsequent inept apologies and yet more recent displays of awkwardness in prose, verse and cartoon, were simply the sort of thing that can happen in undergraduate journalism-a parallel to the miserable football team that often afflicts a college just after it has won a championship...