Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unique was Patriarch Hadley's place in his college. Son of a Yale professor, he was graduated with the class of 1876. Even as an undergraduate the omnivorous character of his brain, later to become a legend, commanded amused respect. Upperclassmen liked to perch his little body on a soap box and make him deliver ponderous schoolboy philippics. Along with his A.B. degree (with highest honors), he won prizes for proficiency in the classics, astronomy, English composition. Socially also he reaped Yale's richest rewards...
Contrary to popular legend, Frenchmen are not emotional, like Germans, but the most rational race in the world. In a Parisian salle d'armes last week one Dr. Armand Massard, inventive swordsman, President of the Parisian Federation of Fencing, exhibited a device to rationalize duelling. Frenchmen applauded...
...Edda Mussolini, approximately 20, A-1 daughter of Italian Premier Benito Mussolini; to Count Galeazzo Ciano, 30, secretary of the Italian Embassy to Vatican City, son of Italian Minister of Communications Count Costanzo Ciano; at Rome. The precise legal conditions of Edda Mussolini's birth must become a legend her father has decreed. He will not let her biography be published. Epically he segregates his five children into two classes, those of his First Series, those of his Second Series. All are of the same mother (TIME, Sept. 16). Edda is a stalwart young woman whose semi-public position...
With pomp and circumstance, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, President-Elect of Mexico, returned to his home last week. A crowd of generals and a military band awaited him on the station platform, airplanes swooped overhead. Over the door of his villa ran the legend: BIENVENIDO ("Welcome"), formed of red carnations and asparagus fronds. Perched perilously on the garden wall were a number of orators from the Federal District Commission, loudly announcing that the next Mexican Govern-ment is destined to become potent in world affairs. Three hundred prominent Mexican ladies arrived in automobiles to give the Mexican embrace to the First...
...Perdriat "legend" is supported by certain facts, remote from the facts of her painting. Well off, she lives expensively, smartly at Auteuil. Her servants are tropical Negroes; her parties are dignified by names, as "Une Nuit Créole." Her pictures sell as fast as she can turn them off her easel. She has never painted a man, only young women with long, equivocal eyes like her own. She had never painted a blonde girl until she visited Norway two years ago and met one she admired. She once sent to the Salon D'Automne a self portrait, nude...