Word: ineptly
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...rehearsal was staged, and it went off like clockwork except for slight difficulties among the harnessing group. For at least two of the horses refused to submit to amateur harnessers, and one of the beasts created a small panic by promptly lying down when his girth was tightened by inept hands...
...Capricornus took off from Southampton with five men, one woman and 65 mailsacks to fly non-stop to Alexandria on a final experimental trip. Over Lyons a few hours later the British pilot ran into a severe snowstorm. Inept like most European airmen at blind flying, he got lost, circled through the murk while the radioman sent out an SOS. Before he could get his bearings, the pilot scraped his wing on a fir tree, smacked full tilt into the side of Mont du Beaujolais, killed everyone but the radioman, who crawled two miles through the snow for help...
...history of photography. Of particular interest is an 18th Century camera obscura, a box with a simple lens at one end, a ground glass screen at the other which showed an inverted image of any brightly lighted object at which it was pointed, was widely used by inept amateur painters. Other interesting pieces of apparatus: a complete outfit for sensitizing, exposing and developing daguerreotype plates; a portable darkroom for sensitizing the next great improvement over the daguerreotype, the messy short-lived collodion plates with which such photographers as Matthew Brady were able to make a fairly complete record...
Disillusioned thus, the first-night audience, which paid $10 per seat, soon was disillusioned about the picture's other an nounced qualifications. Despite the rec ommendations of Europe and Venice, The Robber Symphony is an incredibly inept execution of a brilliant idea...
...Puritans probably had a better time than the Rotarians at that. The Pursuit of happiness is an inalienable right which most of our free citizens exert in an inept and usually futile fashion, and if we may assume Professor Hocking wrote his speech after a visit to a night club it is easy enough to get the point of his remarks. --N. Y. World-Telegram