Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stubbornly resisting all efforts at dislodgment is the brownstone mid-Victorian Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas. On the central peak of this church's façade is a curious coffin-shaped slab of brown stone. For years drivers of sightseeing buses have trumpeted to visitors the legend that the slab is a coffin, that it contains the remains of the donor of the church who had a mortal fear of worms. Actually the slab is merely an ornament. The Collegiate Church was built by no individual but by the Collegiate Corporation...
...Legend has peopled the centre of the Abode of Loneliness-half again as large as France-with the remnant of a race whose mighty civilization long ago was overthrown, buried by the shifting sand. Scientific speculation has long visualized there a central, sunken oasis capable of sustaining life. Midway of his 58-day trek, Explorer Thomas crossed deep caravan tracks. He learned from his Bedouin followers that it was the road to Urbar, buried city of tribal legend. But no other trace of civilized man or oasis did he find. He heard the great dunes made vocal by the winds...
...Sandburg, whose Lincoln biography is a labor of love, morose Poet Masters pictures the Emancipator not as a warm-hearted prairie prophet but as a cold, lazy fanatic. Kansas-born, Poet Masters spent his boyhood at Petersburg, Ill,., went to Knox College (Galesburg), grew up swaddled in the Lincoln legend which he now repudiates. His grandfather hired Lincoln as a lawyer in 1847. His father was for eight years the law partner of William Henry Herndon who was Lincoln's law partner for 18 years. Poet Masters says that Lincoln never addressed Herndon, or any other man, by his first...
Unlike Skippy's father, Artist Crosby, 39, is minuscule, bellicose. It is legend that half the taxi-drivers and police of Manhattan used to call him by his first name. Last year Artist Crosby bought a full page in the Washington Herald, dealt with Prohibition much as in last week's attack, announced that he had sworn never to drink again "with or without repeal" (TiME...
...Manchester R. G. Sullivan Inc. makes "7-20-4" cigars, so-named according to legend because Founder Sullivan got his start in business with the winnings of a lottery ticket numbered...