Word: slipshodness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respected among scholars as editor of Latin poets. His magnum opus, the editing of Manilius (4,258 lines) took him more than 30 years, was finally completed in 1930. As a scholar he is famed not only for his accuracy and arrogance but for his blasting criticisms of more slipshod predecessors who stood in his way; passages of his preface to Manilius are in more than one anthology of prose...
...regarded this hesitancy as the result of sitting on the fence too long, which would seem likely to result in emasculation. The glaring grammatical errors in this review seemed to suggest that another factor was involved: the sheer inability to write English. Assuming that these are due to slipshod proof-reading, and passing over such phrases as "ratiocinative circumstances" etc. we come to the real meaning of the review...
...pedantic and largely fruitless study with scholarship at its best. That would be as unreasonable as the tendency to disparage the art of politics in its ideal Platonic sense because of the unprincipled machinations of Tammany Hall. The real meaning of scholarship is simply careful and thorough rather than slipshod and emotional thinking. The term is too often applied to work of a kind which is an extreme parody of true scholarship...
...knowledge of Greek were first allowed. Though conceding that Latin has in the past performed "yeoman service" in the capacity of disciplinarian and wooder-out of the mentally unfit, the report contends that the removal of the Latin requirements at this time is not "letting down the bars" to slipshod scholarship. Rather, it is said, the resulting increase in the number of eligible applicants will make competition keener and standards of scholarship higher...
Roman Catholic Father Malachy Mulligan was summoned from his monastery to an Edinburgh parish to teach a slipshod congregation how to chant plain song. Across the street from the church were two grievous eyesores: a Church of England edifice placarded with snappy ads for religion, and the Garden of Eden dance hall. Of the two, the Garden of Eden was slightly more offensive to the Catholic priest. Father Malachy, meeting the Anglican parson on the street and becoming involved in theological argument, became so annoyed that he promised to perform a miracle: he would cause the Garden of Eden...