Word: tyro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tyro at financial surveys is Lord MacMillan. Son of a Presbyterian parson, now 60, bald, gaunt, spectacled, with a mouthful of false teeth, he rose to eminence by Scotch frugality and toil through his profession, the law. Famed for his brilliant, resourceful mind, his shrewd humor, he is today Chairman of the Court of the University of London, a Peer, a member of Britain's Privy Council (Supreme HUGH PATTISOX MACMILLAN He repulsed a monstrous suggestion. Court). Heading commissions has been his forte: the Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder in 1924, the Home Office Committee on Street...
...another into a pair of drawers on a line. The drawers stand up and do a buck & wing. A bedspring rises on end. Mickey twangs the strings and it becomes a harp. Anything may take on life and humanity, express itself. A singing bird does its scales like a tyro, gulps, quivers and heaves like a diva, perches on the sheet music on the piano rack and turns the pages. The dog chases the cat through a clothes wringer. Both come through flattened out like sheet iron, go leaping on, smack into a fence which jolts them back into three...
...student beginning German may be honestly advised to substitute German B for the spotty inefficiencies of German A. For an instructor he will have a master rather than a tyro; in subject matter he will find that the dull necessities are compressed to a tight, clear, concise does made palatable by the chocolate chicle of interesting relevancies. Further, and most important, he will compress into one year the stupid translation which occupies the unenlightened who take German A, German 1, and German 2; he will be able at the end of a year of vigorous, stimulating effort...
...Discussing the nest of acanthus leaves round the fat figure 5 in the corners he writes: "No merest tyro in the draughting-room of a wallpaper plant that catered to the Wisconsin Scandinavian trade would be allowed to combine shapes in this brutal and reckless fashion." The 5 bothers him particularly. He reproduces its black bulk on one page followed for comparison by seven 55 from the fonts of celebrated designers. Overleaf is a little drawing of a fat harridan leaning against the Treasury's figure while a slender nymph stands by a modern 5 of Dwiggins design. Then...
...tyro at power and waterway questions is Senator McDougald, onetime medical student who made a fortune in gold and married rich Miss Mary Hannan. He was chairman of the Montreal Harbor Board from 1922 until late in 1930. His experience in such matters caused his appointment to the Canadian National Committee, an advisory body to investigate the benefits and disadvantages that might result to Canada if the Canadian-U. S. St. Lawrence Waterway project were carried out. Known as the best-dressed Senator and one of the best looking men in Ottawa, he has a commanding presence, is a good...