Word: slipshodness
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...Ballet. For years the Metropolitan ballet has been slipshod. Ballet mistress was Rosina Galli, second wife of retired Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Not since 1927 has an independent ballet (Casella's La Giara) been given at the Metropolitan. Last week Manager Johnson made ready to cash in on the current popularity of ballet. He announced the engagement of the American Ballet, the lively organization founded by Edward M. M. Warburg and Lincoln Kirstein, with Russian George Balanchine as director (TIME, Dec. 17). From the present Metropolitan ballet, Balanchine will add to his group of 27 dancers, according to Manager...
...slipshod, not shoddy, but strictly accurate was TIME'S report of Dr. Cohn's statement concerning the average age at which sufferers contract rheumatic fever, and the average age at which Death comes. Sources for all Dr. Cohn's statements may be found in a paper by DeGraff & Lingg in the April issue of American Heart Journal. In Dr. Cohn's opinion, "the trouble with the U. S. public is that they cannot understand the meaning of adjectives, and particularly the word 'average...
...thoroughgoing rebuke to Editor Guy for slipshod reporting, in neglecting to mention that The Green Pastures company had offered to erect its own dressing-room tent outside the school...
...reason for the poor and often menacing advice is the slipshod and hasty method of examination. Students are herded in and out of the offices with undue haste and the attitude of the doctors is usually one of intense boredom with the whole procedure. The average length of time spent in consultation with the doctor is about three minutes and rarely more than one or two minutes when the office is crowded. A student with a severe cough was examined by a doctor while he read a letter and hastily given a prescription for some inhalant. He was not interested...
...hero of such bright young Republicans as Nicholas Murray Butler. Henry Lewis Stimson, Robert Low Bacon, when in 1899 President McKinley let it be known that he wanted a first-rank lawyer for Secretary of War. Someone was needed who could plan and plead reorganization in the slipshod War Department, set up administrations for the colonies newly-won from Spain. Appointed, Lawyer Root did both jobs brilliantly. He stayed on with Theodore Roosevelt and, when John Hay died, he became one of the ablest Secretaries of State in U. S. history...