Word: amateurity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear and nondistorting. Ordinary filtered city water finally filled the bill. Another headache was to find 17 girls able to do virtually a vaudeville act under water. Some, like puckish little Kelcey Carr (see cut}, were plucked out of Greenwich Village dives, some were recruited from strictly amateur ranks through friends of the management. All are comely and most of the 17 were able surface swimmers, learned their new trade from a coach...
Most people know that George Bernard Shaw was once a music critic, writing for London papers under the name Corno di Bassetto (basset horn, a wind instrument). That he was also an amateur composer was revealed last week when Arthur Pforzheimer, Manhattan rare book dealer, exhibited manuscripts of two sweet Shaw songs, / Lack Thy Kisses and Here She Comes, written in 1884 to verses by a friend, a Miss Radford. > Last fortnight the Basle, Switzerland radio station broadcast a gay little opera buffa, La Contadina, by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, second-rank 18th-Century composer. Mislaid in the Brussels Royal Library...
...Because of her example the wife of an unemployed worker cancels her trip to an abortionist (her husband has found a job when she gets home). A philandering playboy makes amends to his future fifth wife, thus saving her from suicide. An ambitious chorus girl consents to marry an amateur philosopher, retire to the simple life in a small town in Oregon...
...must be admitted that Author Brinig's fictitious suicide is more cheerful than John Warde's. But his awkward, correspondence-school prose, his amateur philosophizing make his story less dramatic than mere reporters' accounts of the real thing...
...straight-nosed Bill, No. 2 singles player. Although they are good enough to have a national ranking* (mainly because of a doubles victory over Davis Cuppers Bobby Riggs and Bitsy Grant in the famed Seabright tournament last summer), the Murphy twins have no intention of becoming "tennis bums" (amateur players who tour the circuit of bigtime tournaments and live on the clubs' "expense accounts"). They want jobs as basketball coaches, a game at which they also excel...