Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Millions of amateur distillers from the prohibition era will join me in agreeing with A. C. Whitaker (TIME, Dec. 4), against the editor, that the juice from a French horn is condensed hot air, and not a product of the salivary glands...
...Witt of giving oral reports of cases differing from the record, complaining about "the usual irregularities in procedure characteristic of the Secretary's office"; 2) agreeing with Chairman Madden that the Universal Pictures case in which Mr. Witt was involved "smelled"; 3) protesting about Mr. Witt "and his amateur detectives"; 4) moving that Mr. Witt be fired; 5) asserting that neither the Secretary nor his assistants could understand the facts of the cases they reported...
Born in Boston in 1901, Painter Hoffman began drawing as soon as he could hold a pencil. He studied art in Boston and Europe, now lives in a crowded Manhattan studio with a squint-eye view of Central Park. For recreation, he plays squash, second fiddle in an amateur chamber-music ensemble that meets in his studio every Wednesday evening...
...attractive bait for players than mere traveling expenses and $30-a-day suites. Some tournament promoters have been known to offer lump-sum traveling expenses that could take the player to Buenos Aires and back. Now & then a well-heeled promoter has even been known to get around the amateur code by making a friendly little wager-for instance, a $500 bet that the player cannot jump over his tennis racket...
Last year the United States Lawn Tennis Association, embarrassed by European criticism of U. S. "shamateurism" and by U. S. gossip about "professional amateurs," decided to stop these abuses, announced that it intended to clarify and enforce during the 1939 season its moldy Expense Regulations and Eight Weeks Rule (no player shall receive traveling and/or living expenses for more than eight weeks in any one year). Last week the U. S. L. T. A. surprised the tennis world by suspending from amateur competition pending a hearing two of its most famed players: square-headed Gene Mako, doubles partner of Donald...