Word: slipshodness
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...Welcoming 200 foreign lawyers as A. B. A. guests, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes complained of slipshod U. S. criminal justice. Said he: "The greatest need in this country today is improvement in the administration of justice, especially of the criminal law. . . . Most of our problems could be solved by the selection of competent...
...Gilbert courteously waited until $345,000,000 of Young Plan bonds secured by Germany's promise to pay were successfully floated. Then he released a 350-page report in which more than 100 pages are devoted to flaying the German finance ministry for their chronic habit of loose, slipshod, extravagant budgeting. Last year for a short period, according to Mr. Gilbert, the German government was pledged to spend not only more than they had but more than they could borrow. Only if such methods are replaced by strict, scientific budgeting, he prophesied, will Germany be able to meet...
...danger. The first time was when Jones was playing big Cyril Tolley, last year's British amateur champion, reckless, huge-shouldered, one of the longest drivers in the world. They were all even at the turn. They won holes almost in alternation to the 18th. Both were slipshod around the green and unsure in the pits, with Tolley driving farther and hitting the ball harder, but taking many chances, as golfers usually do when playing Jones. Tolley could have won on the 18th if he had sent his putt down. On the 19th Jones laid him a dead stymie...
...traditional banana skin, a well placed puddle of water can accelerate matters to an exceptional degree. This should inject some humor into a game which formerly has depended too much on the temper of the players. And squash will not be the first sport which has descended to slipshod practices...
...happily with his trainer 30 seconds after being knocked down three times and finally counted out in the ring, and who looks as though he wore a size 13 collar. Other inaccuracies mark a picture which as a story seems too disjointed to entertain rustics and as reporting, too slipshod to amuse metropolites. Best shot: Two old men in a corner of a speakeasy...