Word: tyro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Hollywood press preview, Producer Selznick stood in the lobby, scanning the faces of the "toughest audience in the world" with as much eager ness as any tyro at his own first play...
...paper Harvard University looks like a snap to navigate. Actually the office buildings, stores, and fruit stands which press about the University make the problem no cinch for the tyro who cannot distinguish between the Cambridge Trust Company and Holyoke House...
...such was Chesapeake & Ohio, which last week reported 1938 earnings of $20,192,650 ($34,034,269 in 1937). Ownership of that rich property is well worth fighting for. During the last year a bitter dogfight has raged between the potent Guaranty Trust Co. and a group of tyro financiers headed by Robert R. Young. Chief bone of contention has been Chesapeake Corp., the holding company created by the Van Sweringen brothers to acquire a 51% interest in the C. & 0. Last week, as Wall Street had long anticipated, the bone was finally buried-in Guaranty's yard...
Musing on fighting words that could be and had been legally sent through the mails. General Hugh Samuel Johnson, himself no tyro at invective and abuse, suggested a few more: '"asymptote" ("a daisy of a word"), "parasang," "Cush-ping Dishpit." ("an evil sound and no meaning"), "yellow-bellied sap-sucker," "boat-bottomed grackel." "bottle-nosed puffin...
After the first round of medal play over Oakmont's tricky, rain-soaked course, one of the arguments was stilled. Ellsworth Vines got an 86, had no chance of being included among the 64 low scorers who qualified for the six rounds of match-play elimination. Tyro Vines would have promptly driven back to Pasadena (or perhaps on to the national tennis matches at Forest Hills) were it not for the fact that he had taken along a young Southern California tank-town actor named Pat Abbott to keep him company on his trans continental motor trip. Pat Abbott...