Word: slipshodness
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With a clear head on which grows little hair, a good sense of humor which often takes a literary turn despite a fondness for slang in ordinary conversation, an indifference to formality which comes out in slipshod clothes, Chairman Garrison, with his colleagues, has decided in two months more questions than the old Labor Board did in nine. Last week they undertook to decide the biggest and most vexing question of the year for Labor and Industry: What does Section 7 (a) of the Recovery Act mean...
...Anyone acquainted with public prayer in American churches might well conclude that even ministers do not regard it as deserving any attention at all. Their public prayers often fall from their lips slipshod and haphazard, appalling illustrations of random, extemporized mediocrity...
...Herbert Samuel, who lately led 33 Orthodox ("Free Trade") Liberals across the House from the Government benches. In his first opposition speech, Sir Herbert confined himself to cotton. Japan's commercial advantage in that field, he said, results from a well organized cotton textile industry "with which slipshod British methods would be unable to compete under any circumstances." With an eye cocked on the debased U. S. dollar, Sir Herbert claimed that it is not yet far enough down to make U. S. raw cotton cheaper in England than Indian cotton. He urged British textile men to buy only...
...there; for he is, without any doubt, a superior showman who knows the mood of the public. As a movie, "Private Lives" is one of the few that will keep your interest to the end. The photography is particularly skillful in the Alps scenes, and is never slipshod. Robert Montgomery and Norma Shearer are convincing lunatics, boisterously funny...
...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...