Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swank London audience assembled to hear Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter, lecture on art. was amazed when he stumped down the aisle to the dais in a deep-sea diving suit. Beginning his talk through a microphone inside the helmet, Painter Dali, whose eccentric canvases created a furor in Manhattan nearly two years ago (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), presently was overcome by heat, forced to remove his helmet. Keeping the rest of the costume on until his speech was over, he explained to newshawks: "I just wanted to show that I was plunging down deeply into the human mind...
Sitting in at London as the naval base dickering began was the Admiralty's keen Vice Admiral Sir Edward Ratdiffe Garth Russell Evans, lately commander in chief of the Navy's Africa Station. Sir Edward is supposed to be deep in the confidence of his friend South African Defense Minister Oswald Pirow, so much so that some British editors spoke of what was under discussion as "the Pirow-Evans Defense Plan." It was supposed to envision, in addition to what Mr. Pirow asked of Great Britain, the following contributions by South Africa: 1) raising of a great South...
...trou ble," said Keeper Bjork afterward, "was when I heard Ed swear-and then I looked over that way. Wally had him on the ground with his left front foot on him and was trumpeting and stamping. He stamped and kicked at Ed and then dug his one tusk deep into Ed's body and jerked his head upward-ripping and slashing. He didn't lift Ed off the ground, but just gored him with a vicious ripping motion...
Died. John Hays Hammond Sr., 81, famed mining engineer, President Taft's most trusted confidant and adviser; of heart disease; in Gloucester, Mass. Hired by Cecil Rhodes in 1893 at his own terms, he successfully introduced deep-level mining in the Rand Gold Field, made money hand over fist. For his part in the Jameson raid into the Transvaal, he was sentenced to death, finally went free for a $125,000 fine...
...daughter of a well-to-do stocking-mender, her life as a courtesan was not sufficiently distinguished to win her a place in history. She exercised no political influence, such as her contemporary Emma Hart, Lady Hamilton, enjoyed through her hold on Lord Nelson. She never even inspired deep affection in her lovers. But as Harriette Wilson she traveled with the big names of a bad age, and her observation thereof has clinched for her the dubious honor of being the most articulate British prostitute...