Word: amateurity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week an amateur radio operator in Bremerton, Wash., (about 11,000 miles from St. Paul), picked up a garbled message from L'lle Bourbon: "Ran Short Of Coal Due Bad Weather . . . Hope Madagascar Will Send Rescue. . . ." Expecting the worst, the French Government ordered a rescue ship to sail at once from Madagascar...
Because the aristocratic von Trapps had a good deal of time on their hands, and because Father & Mother von Trapp were both good amateur musicians, the family developed the pleasant habit of making music together. On crisp Tirolese evenings they all gathered in the hall of their mountain castle to sing and play hoary Latin masses and lusty Tirolese folk songs...
Chapter 2. In Manhattan that evening Lawyer Wilbur Love Cummings, a McKesson & Robbins director, was called on the telephone by the company's treasurer, Julian F. Thompson, and told about the receivership. Mr. Cummings thereupon turned amateur detective. He tipped off another director. Partner Sidney J. Weinberg of Goldman, Sachs, who is a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, and the Exchange suspended trading in McKesson & Robbins next morning...
...years back, when I was still an amateur, I knew all the Harvard boys," said Sonja Henie, after she had flashed into her dressing room at the Garden, and flashed out again in four minutes, changed into slacks for her race back to her hotel...
...Harvard boys" were the undergraduate members of the Boston Skating Club, in whose Amateur Carnival Sonja used to appear frequently. "I enjoyed myself much more at the parties they took me to than I did at a Yale Prom," the ice queen added...