Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...character who, if not much like the late Hetty Green, resembles somewhat the world's conception of her. Actress May Robson noticed how Hetty Green's mouth curved down in a hard line under a snub nose, how her eyes sparkled merrily under tufted, threatening eyebrows. An expert in makeup, she made her own features do likewise when she had obtained permission for Author Howard McKent Barnes to write Mother's Millions and make its derivations obvious. Born in Australia 66 years ago, Actress Robson saved her pennies, now has a house on Long Island, another...
Brahms's Sonata in G by Violinist Toscha Seidel and Pianist Arthur Loeser (Columbia, $6)?An expert pair plays Brahms in his tenderest, most mellow mood. The recording is excellent...
...Expert players have reported no great change in their games due to the new ball. Tournament scores have not been noticeably higher or lower. But the mutterings of the average players, of the mediocrities and the dubs, have grown steadily louder, into a national grumble. So last week Life magazine set out to rally the dissenters for a crusade to bring the old ball back. In an open letter to the U. S. G. A. Life offered this challenge...
...ball is unjust and unfair because it widens the gap between the expert and the dub. It may prevent a great player from turning your toughest course in a casual 66, but it will prevent many thousands of others-who make the game, make the galleries and love the fun-from turning in that joyous 89 that means so much...
Thinks Biographer Ludwig: Schliemann "is an outstanding example of my repeated contention that the enlightened amateur beats the solid expert every time. ... If Schliemann had at the beginning known the state of Homeric research ... he would have regarded the Trojan War as a legend, and would have spent neither time nor ambition nor money on it. He succeeded purely because he was not an archeologist...