Word: aircraftman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light-fingered romancer, Author Graves has dug carefully into a mine of authorities (Suetonius, Tacitus, Dio Cassius, Josephus, scores of others) for the outline and main incidents of his story. His good and scholarly friend Aircraftman T. E. Shaw (T. E. Lawrence) scanned the narrative for anachronisms, found none. Though I, Claudius abounds in murderous incidents, scandalous anecdotes. Author Graves can in almost every case quote classical scripture as his authority. Says he: "There is no main incident in the book...
Every schoolboy knows something about Lawrence of Arabia; most of them know that he is now Aircraftman Shaw. In his own lifetime Lawrence's fame has grown until his world-wide shadow is more than man-sized. From Revolt in the Desert, his own abridgment of his Seven Pillars of Wisdom* many a reader knows the salient facts of the most monumental chapter of Lawrence's career. His good friend Robert Graves's Lawrence & the Arabian Adventure filled in some further gaps. Now Liddell Hart, also a friend of long standing, attempts to answer all possible pertinent...
British aircraftmen rained live bombs last week on a "human target," an armor-plated motorboat trickily steered by its inventor Aircraftman Shaw, once famed as Col. T. E. (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence...
Poet Graves writes his poetry strugglingly; he has never written a poem in less than three drafts or more than 35. Most of his books have not sold well, but one of his latest, a prose account of his friend Aircraftman Shaw (Lawrence and the Arabian Adventure), sold 10,000 copies in one week. Other books: Fairies and Fusiliers, On English Poetry, Country Sentiment, My Head, My Head, Lars Porsena, or the Future of Swearing and Improper Language...