Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange case of the late Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace, prodigiously prolific writer of mystery yarns, legend outdid the truth only a little. Legend said that he was merely the figurehead of a big writing syndicate. Witnesses swore it was true, however flabbergasting, that he dictated a full-length thriller in 60 hours, 1,200-word articles in 20 minutes, a hit play in 14 hours. To complicate the picture, he was also called a lazy man, who squandered many an hour at poker, many an afternoon at the race track...
Versions of Saradjeff's deeds are many and the truth is swathed in legend. But it is generally agreed that his first exploit was arriving at Lowell House with the clothes he wore all the way from Moscow and no other possessions. He was put up over at the Law School and on his first trip across the campus became so thoroughly lost that a posse of ten Lowell Men took four hours to find...
Among the world's lost causes, none was more fantastic than the Children's Crusade. The least glorious pilgrimage in religious history, it has been mostly lost to literature as well. The exception is that macabre legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, invented by satirical 13th Century peasants...
...James Franklin Jarman was making $35,000 a year in Nashville's J. W. Carter Shoe Co., which belonged to his cousins. According to legend, 52-year-old Shoeman Jarman, a Baptist deacon, felt unchristian making so much money and also found the Carters, though good folk, not devout enough. One day he went alone to Franklin, a tiny town 18 miles south of Nashville, rented a hotel room. All day long, Bible in hand, he communed with the Almighty. When he emerged he was convinced that it was God's will that he form his own shoe...
...Patrick Kavanagh was "a bit of a lazybones, a bit of a liar and a bit of a rogue." He quit school at 12, worked on farms, joined the Irish Republican Army, learned poaching and desultory banditry, went to all the weddings, wakes, funerals, became highly learned in Mucker legend, superstitions, gossip, cunning...