Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water have yet appeared on her alumni roster. But three famed and wealthy California families have made her bounteous gifts. The late Phoebe Apperson Hearst (mother of the Hearstpapers' publisher) gave the Women's Gymnasium and many a scholarship. Across the stage of the famed Greek theatre runs the legend: THE GIFT OF WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. Two sons of Publisher Hearst, who also gave the Mining Building, matriculated at California: George and William Randolph Jr. From Banker Amadeo Pe ter Giannini (Bancamerica-Blair) came the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. From Miss Ellen Browning Scripps (Scripps-Howard newspapers) came...
...Lithuania. The Havana Post and its evening companion, the Telegram, offered an outlet for Byoir's energy, his knack for diplomacy, his natural urge for influence. He bought the Post and Telegram from Rafael R. Govin, publisher of El Mundo, principal Cuban daily. The same day, says legend, he refused an offer and a profit of $250,000 from Lord Rothermere...
...unicorn takes his place in the zoo which never existed as a sharp contrast to harpies, gorgons, sea serpents, lamias, werewolves, dragons. He is virtually the only one who did not harm man. Legend locates him in India, China, Florida, Africa, Canada, Germany, The Bronx. He was usually supposed to have the body of a horse (sometimes an ass, a goat) with a sharp horn (from a few inches to seven feet long) protruding from his forehead. In combat he could destroy a lion. He refused to allow man to capture him alive. His horn, said the alchemists, would...
...first settlers of Bethlehem, Pa., were a small religious group of Moravians (followers of John Huss) who, according to legend, held their first meeting in a stable, thus gave the place its name. Later, during the Revolutionary War, the Moravians attracted attention to Bethlehem by taking the lead off the roof of their church, melting it down for Colonial bullets. General George Washington was serenaded by the Moravian Trombone Choir, already an important group of trumpeters whose chief function was to announce festival days, births and deaths, from the church belfry. He also went to the church, listened...
...These fellows," said he, "do the sort of thing I try to do consciously, instinctively. I find that I've already become a myth. A legend, that's what I am. It would be amusing to write about me as a sort of Living Dead...