Word: tryout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four new plays due in Manhattan last week were still getting steam up at way stations, but one musicomedy rolled into town. It was a little dusty from a tryout tour of five months, through New England, the Midwest and the South...
Macy's "training school" consists in a course of sprints through which new personnel ambitious for executive jobs are put. Prerequisites for a tryout are a college degree or at least three years in college, also a special psychological test. Past experience is taken into account as well as the impression the candidate makes when personally interviewed. For the young men & women who enter the "school" Macy's provides much actual experience as salesmen and floorwalkers, also lectures on merchandising and bookkeeping...
...ballot or two for Favorite Son White ' When he fails to make headway, the delegates' obligation to him will have been discharged. Then they will be free to switch to some more likely candidate from Ohio Mr. Cox or Senator Robert Johns Bulkley may be given a short complimentary tryout. Finally, depending on how the convention breaks, the delegation will turn to its real choice for the Presidency, the one man from Ohio who could lay serious claim to the nomination and who once nominated, could give Herbert Hoover a hot race in November?Newton Diehl Baker...
Attendance at the meeting Wednesday involves no obligation to enter any of the competitions. In these no previous newspaper experience is needed. The fall competition offers the best opportunity for Sophomores, since the next tryout lasts through the midyear examination period...
When, after an interim of three years, he put together another Follies (his 23rd) and sent it out to Pittsburgh last fortnight for a tryout, he knew he had no breathtakingly new ideas or humor. He knew the music was only cheerfully dependable, not intoxicating, and during the trial he bustled Composer Johnny Green ("Body & Soul") out to try and brush up the songs. But he had followed his old formula: really beautiful girls, the best tap and ballet dancing that money can buy, principals who are currently at top popularity, and the most perfect mounting, dressing, laundering, discipline...