Word: slipshodness
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Julius Tannen, Ted and Betty Healy, Bobby Folsom are reported to be headliners in vaudeville-Mr. Tannen has occasionally assisted other revues. None seem to matter much. The chorus is only mildly exhilarating, the scenery slipshod. A tune or two stands...
...waiters won. They sized themselves up and put in their shell eight men with no nonsense about them. The Yale chef at Gales Ferry, on the other hand, casually lined his scullery men on a mark and gave oars to the first eight men who reached the shell. Such slipshod methods were their own reward. The Harvard waiters...
...together that one has to wait for the writer to unravel them. Not until two-thirds of the way through the book does the writer find it necessary to conceal from the reader the surmises in the detective's mind. The writing is workman like ; only the proofreading is slipshod...
...great cultures, languages are the best means of approach. They are valuable tools, and the knowledge of their proper use is not acquired by slipshod translation and hastily prepared exercises which so often characterize the work of the student who takes French A or German A against his will. The old ruling tended to make a man contented with a reading knowledge of one and a merely elementary knowledge of the other. He is now free to substitute Latin; and if he does, he has gained a serviceable knowledge of two languages a real improvement upon the old requirement...
...fore- most in America." Hereafter there will be no excuse for any U. S. newspaper to be without at least one redeeming feature. For a moderate consideration, any city editor can now have a model of sincere, constructive, idealistic thought and writing against which to contrast the "blowsy," "slipshod" language of the news columns, the "drivel" he lets "slide under his nose," the "transparent absurdities," the "trivialities and puerilities." To his vulgar, ignorant cub reporter, a city editor may now say: "Go thou and read our column by Mr. Mencken and be a better...