Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours later, still yawing slightly in this unreal course of events, Tex had in his otherwise empty pockets the ownership papers to the 63-foot Winnetta, a 35-year-old schooner which in her $75,000 prime had once raced her sticks off on the Great Lakes, in more recent years had been the little-used property of fiftyish John S. Nairns, an inventor preoccupied with developing an airscrew for propelling ships. Inventor Nairns had sold the Winnetta's motor, but he still had the masts and sails in storage. Last week, lucky Tex scrubbed and buffed away...
Compared with such recent books of documentary photographs as Archibald MacLeish's Land of the Free (TIME, April 25), Evans' selection in his own book is many-sided, disinterested, clinical. The photographs are uncaptioned yet arranged to be looked at in order. In each the camera has caught the essential moment, memorized in detail some significant things: the early morning light on hundreds of back yards in an industrial city; four sour people on a Bronx bench on Sunday; a pompous Legionnaire with waxed mustaches, looking brave...
...Paris, the authoritative Beaux-Arts magazine noted Queen Elizabeth's recent purchase of a painting by Wilson Steer and a portrait of George Bernard Shaw by Augustus John. Added the Beaux-Arts: this was the first occasion since before the reign of Charles I (1625-49) that the British Royal Family has acquired a picture solely for its artistic merits...
...small but significant event in recent literary history has been the rediscovery of Bronson Alcott. Until two years ago this genial New England philosopher enjoyed an unread celebrity as the father of Louisa May Alcott, a friend of Emerson, one of the least coherent of the Transcendentalists, a slightly daffy but harmless mystic. Glimpses of Alcott in Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England exploded these literary myths. Odell Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Alcott, Pedlar's Progress, gave further proof of their injustice. This week the publication of long sections from Alcott...
Lord Wright of Durley, one of the most active figures in recent development of English law, will give a free, public lecture on the Common Law at 5 o'clock this afternoon, at Langdell Hall. He will discuss "Damages and Tort...