Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autumn. It is during these travels that they gnaw the butts of pine trees great and small. In some sections a huntsman would have no trouble killing 50 per day. Foolish is the huntsman who takes with him a dog. But for himself he need not worry. Legend to the contrary, porcupines cannot shoot or throw their quills. Only those get stuck who try to pinch or pat a porcupine...
Plantation raised, immutably a Georgian, like all Atlantans he is proud of the prowess of Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr., prouder still that he once persuaded Golfer Jones to continue studying Latin at Technical High School. The legend: Golfer Jones, 14, refused to recite his Latin lessons, was invited to "talk it over" with Teacher Sutton. After discussing golf for 15 min., said Golfer Jones: "My father tells me that if I go to school I've got to take the full course, including Latin...
Westminster Abbey belongs to the Empire (even to the world because of its "poets' corner"), but St. Paul's Cathedral is London's own. Standing in the heart of The City, according to legend on the site of an ancient Roman temple to Diana, its high golden cross is a landmark tor freighters on the Thames and for tourists on Fleet Street...
Entirely erased from the U. S. Press is the legend of Alfred J. P. ("Jake") Lingle, Martyr-the touching story of the brave crime reporter for the Chicago Tribune who was shot down because he "knew too much" (TIME, June 23). Instead there had taken form by last week the story of Jake Lingle, Racketeer, who sold for fat sums the power of his newspaper to politicians, gamblers, crimesters, without his employers-who paid him $65 per week-knowing much about it. Five days after Lingle's murder the publishers of the Tribune had learned enough about the relations...
Total Cook benefactions to Michigan amount to $20,000,000. include the celebrated Lawyer's Club, Martha Cook Dormitory (in memory of his mother), an administration building, a law research library, none of which, according to Michigan legend, he ever went to see. preferring to retain his conceptions of them from the architectural drawings...