Word: bunyan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...although he occasionally lapses into something like sympathy. Not that there can ever be true sympathy between a Mozartian on the one hand and a Wagnerite like Lawrence on the other! This is Professor Tindall's second study of a literary figure for whom he has no real liking (Bunyan was the first). We shall be interested to see the results of his turning to more congenial subjects. They can hardly be better...
Contra this hearsay assertion, unsupported by facts, that France possesses the Paul Bunyan of banners, I advance the claim of Michigan to that distinction...
...soon to realize, was that without a few normal-sized folks for contrast, midgets appear much like other people. Next time out, Producer Buell's half-pint stock company will have something to stack up against. They will act out the legend of the mighty lumber man, Paul Bunyan, with a burly upper case actor in the lead...
...Eastbound from Missoula, a huge Northern Pacific freight locomotive, with 75 cars behind and a hundred hoboes riding, blew up in Hell Gate Canyon with the mightiest roar Montana has heard since Paul Bunyan passed by. Dead when help came were the engineer, the fireman, the brakeman, two hoboes. So shattered was the engine that railway officials despaired of determining just what had happened. But in the Northern Pacific offices at Philadelphia, 2,000 miles away, there had lain for weeks a document containing a fantastically possible answer: two typewritten pages reporting a conversation overheard on the Camden-Philadelphia ferry...
...Pilgrim Fathers first settled the northeast corner of what is now the United States. Spaniards were first in the southeastern and southwestern corners. But the Northwest Corner, as everyone knows, was first occupied by Paul Bunyan, the great logger. He went there to get milk of the Western whale to cure the mysterious illness of Babe, his blue ox. Puget Sound is the grave he dug for Babe when he thought the ox would die, and Washington's Cascade Mountains are the dirt Paul and his loggers heaved up in their digging...