Word: unevenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...done. But then it was discovered that, though one of the distinguished City Councilmen has written successful novels, the City Council had written an impotent ordinance. There was no enforcement clause. Indianapolitans, including cinema exhibitors, kept their clocks as they chose with impunity. Time passed through Indianapolis on uneven feet. Confusion reigned. Lawyers puzzled...
Taken all in all, the present issue is more uneven in its merit than perhaps seems necessary. But at the same time praise for the issue as a whole far out-weighs any slight blame incurred by a few mediocre attempts at humour. If one feels the slightest tingle of the spring tickling the soles of one's feet or the whims of one's mind, then let him haste to make acquaintance with Lampy in his new spring jacket...
...Lampoon prose is uneven. It is probably an inevitable failure, but nevertheless a fact. Just-So Stories for Little Sots makes no pretense of doing more than riding the pun pretty hard, and comes off a winner. Little Peggy and the Old Album mounts a spirited hoss, which does well enough for the first lap, but he hasn't much wind...
...Just as in The Constant Nymph she studied reflections of the erratic musician Sanger, as they appeared in his children, she now unfolds the more tragic influences of Norman Crowne as they animate his son and daughter. As these two are more tragic, they are more spectacular. Their bright uneven beauty sometimes begins to be a little unreal. But the construction of her theme, the way in which their mercurial doings are played against the less irregular pattern of the Frobishers outweighs and hides their unreality. The glow of "red sky at morning, shepherds' warning," pervades the pages...
...present Pulitzers, proprietors of the World. Atop the building glints the famed gold dome, and that remains the same. The deep intestines of the building have been changed. Four years ago executives perceived that equipment in printing, paper and production had exceeded the capacity of the pressrooms. Uneven quality of paper and shaky printing made no daily match for the immaculately dressed Times and Herald-Tribune. Discarding a possibility of deserting the traditional building, the proprietors decreed a new pressroom. In quarters so cramped that two famed manufacturers refused the contract, an entirely new equipment has been laboriously installed...