Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late Vice Admiral Leslie C. Stevens, onetime U.S. naval attaché in Moscow and author of the bestselling Russian Assignment...
...works of nearly all Canadian artists of stature, plus a scattered few paintings by Europeans. Other Canadian tycoons supplemented the basic collection with gifts of their own. Toronto's Matthew James Boylen (asbestos, copper and lead mines) presented the new gallery with 22 Krieghoffs; the estate of the late Sir James Dunn (steel and iron ore) added three Sickerts and Dali's huge Santiago El Grande, whose rearing horse dominates the picture-window gallery. Beaverbrook's favorite ("because I like it") is Gainsborough's Peasant Girl Gathering Faggots, but he also cherishes his own portrait, painted...
Beauty is a thing of Ragmud But the maid left late. So don't look under the apple tree Let's rebel...
...back as 1955, United knew that it would be late with jets when President W. A. Patterson, over hot opposition in :he company, turned down the 707 in favor of the DC-8 of its longstanding supplier, Douglas. Because of late delivery of the planes, Patterson gloomily forecast a $3 million to $10 million loss for 1959. Traffic did drop 20% on transcontinental routes, but United has confounded its president's prediction: the line showed a $7,000,000 profit for the first half, expects to end the year well in the black. United was helped by the general...
When fame strikes a writer late, reprints of his earlier works sometimes become exciting discoveries. This is what Boris Pasternak's publishers hope for with his slim, 1934 story The Last Summer (see below); similarly, Vladimir Nabokov's literary handlers hope that The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) will acquire Lolita's gilt by association. The first book Nabokov wrote in English (his workshop was the bathroom of his one-room Paris flat), Sebastian Knight has a low sex quotient and no nymphets. Instead, it is devoted to themes that novelists seem to be born with...