Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wagner used the legend of the Flying Dutchman for his fourth opera (Der Fliegende Holländer}, the first intimation of the power he was to set forth in Tristan and Die Götterddämmerung. Wagner had the Dutchman cast ashore with a Norwegian captain called Daland. Daland had a daughter, Senta, whose fancy had been taken by the queer stories about the Dutchman. She offered him the love which would save him but he doubted her and she threw herself into the sea. Whereupon the phantom ship went down and the Dutchman too found the death he had so long...
...other merchandise in Kress and Kresge stores, which do not guarantee their sale. Also like the Woolworth group, the Dell magazines already give promise of gathering bountiful advertising from makers of goods retailed by Kress and Kresge. E. g.: An inside cover advertisement for hair nets with the legend, "Sold exclusively at S. S. Kresge...
...seized upon the plan for Curtis Publishing Co. Last February, Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal were on sale in a few Kroger stores; last week in 1,459; next month in 350 more. Each magazine is rolled inside a wrapper bearing the Kroger name, and a legend suggesting that most of the advertised food and grocery products are available where the magazine was bought...
...dozen others, but instinctively thought first of Gossip-Colyumist Walter Winchell (TIME, June 17, 1929). New York has heard before the rumor of threats against his life. Not loath to dramatize his position, Colyumist Winchell himself has helped circulate the impression that "some day. . . ." Characteristic is the legend that he has placed in a safe deposit box the names of those who might cheerfully see him "rubbed out," with a detailed account of their motives...
...cows with a prize bull. He used to hunt for robbers at night disguised as a cowboy. He was married twice (once, briefly, to famed Diva Lina Cavalieri). He had innumerable friends, knocked three town houses together to have room for his mass studio parties which have become Manhattan legend...