Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beautiful U. S. heiress, a friend of the woman to whom Spenlove tells the story. (Captain Remson's wife had been too corrupted, apparently, by the slack code of U. S. high society to understand an English gentleman.) Remson finally ended up in the South American jungle, where legend had it he had found gold mines. Actually his treasure trove was an ideal woman and ideal peace, manifesting "a character that seems to me likely to carry him through our times and on into better times...
...Yale Alumni Association wishes to announce the disappearance of their treasured blue-and-white banner bearing the immortal legend "For God, for Country, and for Yale." Apparently, this item was the only thing gained by Harvard, for Crimson weekenders are still straggling in with doleful reports of lower bank accounts, boiling-points, and morals as a result of the Connecticut invasion...
...addition, through the gay pattern of his waltzes, sung or played with an effectiveness rarely surpassed on a cinema sound track, The Great Waltz lightly weaves a fragmentary legend of the composer's life. The result is an operetta in which, for once, story and score become part of the same picture-the familiar tapestry, this time brighter and more improbable than ever, of life and young love in old Vienna...
...show the Broadway critics puffed last season became a flop, none they panned became a hit. But this season the public has been reversing critics' decisions right & left. In spite of critical praise, Missouri Legend slowly sickened and died. In spite of criticules, Hellzapoppin, consistently puffed by Walter Winchell, quickly rallied, jumped out of bed and took the town. And with qualified reviews, Knickerbocker Holiday has become a success, Kiss the Boys Goodbye a smash...
...dying, like each of these men, because he had given a meaning to his life. What would have been the value of a life for which he would not have been willing to die? . . . An assembly of the vanquished in which multitudes would recognize their martyrs, a bloody legend of which the golden legends are made...