Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind today is, perhaps, the lion of them all. Individual in appearance, delivery and thought, rich in scholarship and anecdote. Professor Kittredge, one of the remaining "Great Men", is possibly the only reason every freshman should be forced to concentrate in English, like it or no. There is a legend to Kittredge, made up of countless stories, told by him and of him which should never be allowed to escape Harvard posterity...
...Washington Herald last summer, she attracted notice with a signed front-page declaration to the effect that the only political assistance Mrs. Longworth could render Senate Nominee Ruth Hanna McCormick in Illinois was posing for photographs. It appeared that the Countess was out to explode the "Princess" legend, for business or other reasons. Last week Editor Patterson took another signed front-page thrust at Theodore Roosevelt's daughter...
...drop into the hole; so his savings-bank stomach remained permanently empty." Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow (see p. 16) agreed to be best man at the wedding on Oct. 4 of his nephew, Lawyer Richard B. Scandrett Jr. of Manhattan, and Mary Emma Landenberger, of Philadelphia, newspaper reporter. Legend: Lawyer Scandrett first met Reporter Landenberger when she came to interview him professionally. When she left, said he: "There's the girl I'm going to marry...
...parental eyes). Every week for 18 years Author Patten (under the name of "Burt L. Standish" so that others might carry on after him, or in case of illness) ground out 20,000 words. At first he was paid $50 a week, never more than $150, despite a legend that Merriwell made him rich. He is probably the most prolific writer in the U. S. He estimates he has so far written about 40 million words...
...this human being was also the Savior of the Union. It is not the approach an artist would take; in taking it Director David Wark (Birth of a Nation) Griffith was thinking first of the boxoffice. And since there is nothing in public life today remotely approaching the Lincoln legend, .perhaps Director Griffith's judgment was as good from the patriotic as from the financial point of view. Moreover, perhaps the schoolbook Lincoln is essentially the great Lincoln...