Word: slipshodness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slipperiness of the wet ball gave the Green booters an opportunity to which they added a new spirit gained during the half. Harvard's eleven relapsed into their slipshod habits of the past few weeks, bunching, muffing, and slowing down, and the result was that Doano, Indian left inside, and Eckhardt, high scoring center, hit pay dirt and tied up the score...
...system," has its advantages. It simplifies and speeds up rehearsal, and allows the public to hear a great number and variety of fine singers. But it also has disadvantages. Under it, an operatic cast is seldom rehearsed as a unit. Result: Operatic acting and staging, as a rule, is slipshod, routine, uncoordinated...
...make the statement without rancor, that he worst enemy of the Theatre today is the people of the Theatre. Perhaps the producers are most to blame - the majority of them amateur or near-society dilettantes, night-club habitues, angel-backers and shoestring gamblers, (ith their slipshod, unmoral and, even worse, unprepared productions, messing up Broadway...
...Dressings about the openings of the mouth, eyes and nose are particularly objectionable, as they retain decomposing secretions in contact with the wound." Infection or disfigurement, declared Dr. Babcock, "from an incised or even the average lacerated wound of the face or the scalp, as a rule, indicates a slipshod operation or lack of surgical skill...
Died. Alfred Edward Housman, 77, famed English poet; in Cambridge, England. Known to his University as a typical don. prim, silent, conventional, learned; to scholars for his masterly editing of minor Latin Poets (Manilius. Juvenal, Lucan) and his blasting criticisms of slipshod predecessors; he was known to the world for his two thin books of verse. A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems. Published 26 years apart, their lucid pessimism and classic simplicity made him one of the most popular, most quotable poets of modern times. A stoical poet who wrote his verse as a bitter antidote to the poison...