Word: tyro
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Nonetheless, the Manhattan show contained many an eye-filling exhibit. Vivid colors, big bulks, graceful stream lines satisfied even the veriest tyro. Towering over other ships on the main floor was the Burnelli Flying Wing. Adjacent was the latest Aeromarine Klemm amphibian, also manufactured by the Uppercu-Burnelli group...
Curtius v. Schacht. Chief of the German Delegation at The Hague last week was Foreign Minister Dr. Julius Curtius, successor to the late, great Stresemann, and a comparative tyro at diplomacy. He had asked Dr. Schacht to come on from Berlin as a financial expert, found him suddenly as troublesome as a Golem or a Frankenstein...
Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico and (selfstyled) "ambassador to the Caribbean," gets help from newspapermen on the tyro Spanish in which, with dogged goodwill, he addresses his charges when- ever he can. Last week one newspaperman could not forbear to relay to the U. S. two of the Governor's better "breaks" in recent Spanish-speeches...
...window seat and fender rail of his booklined study. "Old Boys" * fondly recall his habit of snorting humorously through his nose, his ceaseless jiggling of his Phi Beta Kappa key. Of his five sons, most spectacular is the second-eldest, Sigourney Thayer, World War aviator, Paris habitue, theatre tyro, husband of Emily Davies Vanderbilt...
...from treading unaware Upon a step that isn't there. Each proud and unfamiliar name May prove to be a source of shame, If in pronouncing it you make, From lack of knowledge, a mistake. Great Britain absolutely teems With men and women surnamed Wemyss, And everywhere the tyro strolls There lurks an unsuspected Knollys. He's certain to be greeted glumly Who gives four syllables to Cholmondcley, Or by his ignorance disarms The good intentions of a Glamis. Who'd blame a self-respecting Tyrrwhite, Miscalled, for chiding in a spirit Of gentle protest...