Word: amateurish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Luce was much more satisfactory as the millionaires, and the Brattle Company supported her very well, with the exception of Fletcher whose mugging was rather amateurish. Jan Farrand and Peter Temple, on the other hand, were very pleasing, and on the whole, the actors were energetic and witty...
...Yard cops, emeritus, is unable to recall the spectacular crime described in the "King's" autobiography. Within Connelly's memory, which stretches over 40 years of Harvard history, there has been only one safe burglarized in the University, and that was on registration day in September, 1918. "An amateurish job at that," says John...
After a summer's work, he showed up in New York with the manuscript of The Unspeakable Gentleman, an amateurish historical novel which Literary Agent Carl Brandt promptly sold to the Ladies' Home Journal. Says Marquand now: "I will be goddamned if I know why I wrote it. To me it's an indecent exposure and I'm thoroughly ashamed of it." It seemed different at the time: he put his check for $2,000 in the Atlantic Bank of Boston, got a new pair of shoes and had his broken pipes repaired. Admits Marquand...
Under the new team, the Star had gained in ads and circulation (from 98,000 to 141,000), but costs had gone up too. The weekly deficit had risen from $15,000 to $30,000. The Star had suffered from PM's reddish complexion and amateurish approach. It had been stuck with distribution contracts, and wire-service costs that it could not afford ($72,000 a year...
Four groups of hardy, if amateurish, young men will open the House football season today of Soldiers Field when Kirkland takes on Dunster and Leverett meet Winthrop...