Word: slipshodness
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Edwin Franko Goldman, 64, took up the cornet at 8, at 17 became solo cornettist of the Metropolitan Opera House orchestra. Goldman might have lived out his days as a virtuoso, but for his experience tootling in summer bands. Shocked at their slipshod playing, their lack of rehearsals, he bowed to an ambition-to bring orchestral nuances to band music. At the first rehearsal of Goldman's own band, the players found their parts a mass of hen tracks in red ink, detailed instructions for phrasing, etc. Said one musician: "This is just like a kindergarten." But one rehearsal...
Instead of running the girls out of town, San Antonio officials ask to see their health papers, pack them off to the clinic. The system is vastly different from the old European routine of slipshod examinations and yellow passports: in San Antonio the girls are given modern treatment. On the second floor they fill out records telling a few facts about their customers. Then they are given a blood test. If infected, they are treated at once to make the diseases non-catching. For gonorrhea, they get sulfathiazole tablets; for syphilis, slow injections of neoarsphenamine and bismuth. Even...
Serious indeed was the report by President Jack Tanner of the leftist Amalgamated Engineers Union. Of 31 plane plants recently surveyed, he said, only six were working on full schedule. Reasons: shortage of tools and materials, delays in contracts, slipshod planning by managers. Said Tanner...
There in a plenary session of the ruling Kuomintang the Generalissimo stood up and scolded his Party heartily for losing the confidence of the people, for doing a slipshod administrative job, for playing into Japan's hands...
...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...