Word: lately
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nelson Glueck, heading an expedition of the American School for Oriental Research. Aqaba is a town encircled by towering granite hills on a narrow gulf at the Red Sea's northern end. During the War it was captured from the Turks by Arabian forces under the late, strange Colonel T. E. Lawrence...
...airport in East Farmingdale, L. L. Captain Ugo V. D'Annunzio son of the late Italian Poet-Flyer Gabriele D'Annunzio, stalled the engine in his airplane. He hopped out, spun the propeller. As the motor caught and the plane began to move, Aviator D'Annunzio ducked the wing., missed the cabin, was knocked flat by the tail. The pilotless plane wheeled dizzily round the field, crashed through a fence, pinned a woman bystander against her automobile. The woman was hospitalized. Charged with third-degree assault, Flyer D'Annunzio was arrested, held in $500 bail...
Several bearded old gentlemen arriving for an opening at the Tooth Gallery in London last week were pleasantly surprised by the attentions of photographers, who, it turned out, were merely taking no chances of missing the True Beard. The True Beard, when it arrived hours late in a frieze of glamorous ladies, was that of Augustus John, for ten years Britain's most distinguished R. A. and for several weeks her most congratulated ex-R. A. (TIME, May 9). Tooth was opening his first one-man show of paintings in nine years, notable for a dozen magnificent West Indian...
...with an extraordinary, romantic grasp of character. Born at Tenby in 1878 of parents variously described as Welsh or gypsy or both, he entered London's severe Slade School at 5 and quickly became the most brilliant draftsman in a shoal which included Sir John Lavery and the late Sir William Orpen...
Posterity will be indebted to Augustus John for the great lineaments of many of Europe's great men. His etching of Yeats as a young man is already famous. His crayon drawing of the late T. E. Lawrence in Arab headdress gives that long-jawed little man all his well-earned dignity. When the practical Lord Leverhulme, soap king of England, cut the head out of John's portrait of him in 1920 so he could get it in his safe, most of the artists and art dealers in London went on strike for 24 hours...