Word: tyro
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...succeed the retiring member. Thus it will rarely happen that an ex-President can enter the Senate without an undignified and unseemly contest. Then, too it is probable that most ex-Presi-dents would shrink from membership in the. Senate. An ex-Presi-dent would enter the Senate a tyro, like any other new member unfamiliar with Senate rules, without an important committee chairmanship, less ready in debate probably than the practiced old members. From being the most important figure in Washington he would become a mere member of the Senate, of whom there are 96, and almost surely...
...Woodward, whoever he may be,† shows the usual faults of a tyro. Apparently he thinks no one has ever appreciated Washington until he came along. The fatal difficulty is that he thinks he has made new discoveries...
Next to the Glatt farm, the Lincoln Standard Aircraft Corp. opened a school for air pilots. Great sport was had by Farmer Glatt and family, at first, watching. Then tyro pilots took to "zooming" (swooping low at) the Glatt house, barn, barnyard, cows, chickens. Farmer Glatt's hens laid few eggs. Baby chicks died of fright. Glatt cows grew nervous, Glatt horses shied, Glatt hogs grunted...
...wisecrack with my wife ("Do drop 'Thanks for the buggy ride,' George!") See? TIME'S informatory value being "as every one knows," taken for granted-accurate, complete, swift. . . . But, my dear Sirs, isn't that an absurd paragraph I have just composed? It is a tyro's effort to paraphrase TIME style. It chokes with adjectives. It halts and confuses and baffles even me, who wrote it. And it reminds me very much-including its possibilities-of the advertisements of TIME that have lately been appearing in TIME'S own pages (inside of back...
...GREECE). Now he stands forth as the "popular" bulwark to which M. Painleve looks for a large measure of the "psychic support" which he must have if he is to weather the heavy going ahead. It is one of the ironies of French politics that M. Painleve, a then tyro deputy, once delivered an address (one hour long) in the Chamber against M. Briand, entitled The Triumph of Immorality...