Word: maladroit
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Franklin D. Roosevelt has often been accused of misjudging the mind of the U. S. churches. Many a clergyman remembers Mr. Roosevelt's maladroit "How'm-I-doing?" letters to churchmen in 1935, plagiarized in part from a letter by Wisconsin's Philip Fox La Follette, and productive of an extraordinary number of blasts at the New Deal. And Protestants have latterly been irked by Mr. Roosevelt's preference for consulting Roman Catholic ecclesiastics...
...York critics have never been so appreciative of Werner Janssen's gifts. Though he is an earnest student, a meticulous conductor with a clean, unmannered beat, they find him immature, often maladroit in sustaining long passages, often given to inexplicable changes of pace. But Hollywood had little doubt of Janssen's worth. At the end of the concert they stood and applauded for seven minutes. Conductor Otto Klemperer said he was "overwhelmed." Forty-two hostesses invited him to their parties as guest of honor...
...that stand is the result of the nebulous policies of the Harvard Athletic Association in this instance apparently more than maladroit, then, not alone is the stand commendable, it is reasonable, if, however, it traces more directly to the unpleasant episodes of the last week-end, the CRIMSON, while admiring Princeton's maintenance of a decent and convincing self, respect, feels that the decision to break off relations with Harvard, is too abrupt. Nothing can do more to hurt amateur athletics in general and football in particular than the fact that two ancient and great American Universities cannot enjoy honorable...
...series of "innuendoes" and "misrepresentations," and has shown himself not a fit candidate for a Columbia degree; here again outsiders cannot say where honors are due. It is not necessary, however, to have an intimate knowledge of the local conditions to feel that Dean Hawkes has been maladroit and unpolitic in his treatment of the situation, summoning the whole managing board to his office, communicating with the editor in notes, and apparently making little attempt to settle the question by personal discussion. A solution less embarrassing both to the student and to Columbia might surely have been reached...
...portion of the letter written to Governor Fuller by another gentleman interested in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, namely, one Chandler Hovey, stock-broker. On a day when college professors and men from the world of business meet to dedicate the new buildings of the School of Business Administration such maladroit cerebration loses its humor in its speciousness...