Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vault of the Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co. on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, lies a silver cup of great antiquity. It is believed by many to be the Holy Grail which according to legend vanished mysteriously after Sir Galahad took it to the city of Sarras in the East. The cup is known as the Great Chalice of Antioch, where it was discovered in 1910 by some excavating Arabs. It has been since 1914 the property of Fahim Joseph Kouchakji. a Syrian Catholic born in Aleppo who became a U. S. citizen last week. Art Collector Kouchakji was planning last...
...been said that he had his own brass bed, his own special table, that huge sums had been refused for the Wendel property so as to insure Tobey a place to run in.) Was it true that he was to be shot, as were the Wendel horses (said legend) when the old family coachman died in 1929? Was it true that Manhattan's Flower Hospital was to receive some $17,000,000 from Miss Wendel's estate because a doctor there had once mended the broken leg of a previous Tobey Wendel...
Tabu (Paramount). This film, if translated from pictures into words, would emerge in the form of a bare and gloomy island ballad. It tells the Polynesian legend of a love affair between an island boy and a girl who has been selected by her tribe for vestal consecration. The boy, Matahi, and the girl, Reri, escape from their own island to a more civilized one where he becomes the best pearl diver in the harbor. One night he dives into dangerous water to get a pearl which will enable them to go further away from the pursuing warrior Hitu. When...
...will publish in TIME whether or not the portrait for framing is printed exactly as is the one presented in the magazine. By this I mean particularly if the back of the President's picture will bear in silver, blue, black, and gold, a full-page legend to the effect that "Goodyear" is the leading make of tire...
...amusing story persisted at Harvard for almost 100 years, to the effect that "Old Hickory" listened in evident dismay as the degree was conferred in Latin and then accepted the honor with a string of Latin phrases beginning with e pluribus unum and ending with hic jacel. The legend was doubtless due in part to the fact that Jackson was thoroughly hated in New England...