Word: inexpertness
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...Habitual Husband. The same assembly of players, directors and guarantors who lately sponsored the distinguished Candida (The Actors' Theatre) opened their season of regular evening performances with one of the flimsiest and most inexpert productions that one can easily conceive...
...permissions were granted so freely that by 1849 less than one-sixth of the College was in Commons. By this time the whole business had become a white elephant, until, under the inexpert hands of outside speculators, it proved a flat failure, and was abandoned...
...Probably when the discerningly competent John Farrar and Stephen Vincent Benet are more experienced in the Theatre, they will look back upon Nerves and wonder why they ever did it. It originated as a one-act War play, was spread thinly through three acts and emerged as such an inexpert contrivance that the critics quite lost their tempers. The story discusses a young aviator with a bad heart and too much imagination who went to War, funked his duty, was driven to it, crippled himself for life getting his Boche. There is also a girl who decided with difficulty between...
...must have been a relief to the judges, however, to find a medium with such gentle methods. No tipping over of tables, no twanging of banjoes by inexpert toes, no roaring of megaphones, no clatter of ghostly hammers and malles Mrs. Stewart only played a quiet game of cards. But those who were encouraged to hear of William James' interest, must have had their soaring hopes dampened. Since even James did not really speak, what chance is there of hearing from Professor Royce and Professor Agassiz, or perhaps John Harvard himself from a possible bench in an aerial Mermaid Tavern...
...recalled that, after his defeat by Siki, charges were made that the Negro had agreed to "lie down," but forgot his instructions so completely as to knock Carpentier out in the third round. It is not beyond the bounds of probability that Carpentier will now be matched with the inexpert McTigue in Paris. A graceful opportunity is thus afforded him to regain his championship without undergoing the ordeal of trading punches with the disagreeable Senegalese...