Word: lately
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done it," giggled a feminine voice from the London end. "They've done it!" shouted the bartender. No explanation was needed for the pub's regular customers. "They" meant the owner of the Plow, plain-featured, 35-year-old Ishbel Allen MacDonald, daughter of the late longtime Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, and her fiancé of two weeks, sandy-haired, 35-year-old Norman Ridgley, village handy man. The telephone call meant they had been quietly married...
...Embassy in Grosvenor Square, the Ambassador cocked his feet up on his highly-polished desk, to the satisfaction of Britons who always thought the "English gentleman" manners of his predecessor, the late Robert Worth Bingham, somewhat pretentious. Joe Kennedy proceeded to go for a ride on a "rented horse," played golf (see p. 28), shook hands with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain...
...Oldest living thoroughbred is thought to be 35-year-old Merrick, a neighbor of Man o' War at Lexington, Ky. †The progeny of the late St. Simon holds the world's record...
...biggest of the ten important U. S. publishers of medical books, W. B. Saunders Co.* of Philadelphia, last week celebrated its 50th birthday. Although handsome President Lawrence Saunders might have saluted himself for his formidable list of 800 medical texts ranging from the late Physiologist Hobart Amory Hare's Essentials of Physiology (published in 1888) to Dr. Leon Herman's The Practice of Urology (published this week), he saluted another instead: Professor Max Brödel of Johns Hopkins, the first & only professor of medical art in the world, illustrator of many Saunders books, crony of many Saunders...
...leave his native Leipzig for Baltimore in 1894 to illustrate Kelly's Operative Gynecology. That and other books by Dr. Kelly and Johns Hopkins doctors kept the artist busy until 1911. Then Dr. Kelly's associate, Gynecologist Thomas Stephen Cullen, persuaded the late President Henry Walters of the Atlantic Coast Line R. R. to finance a chair of "Arts as Applied to Medicine" in Johns Hopkins. Associate Professor of Art Brödel gives a two-year course. Hardest thing to teach, says he, is "the use of highlights to represent the glistening character of fresh tissue, vessels...