Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Megaro revealed, a large quantity of previously suppressed information concerning the Italian dictator's early life and writings, which the Harvard tutor obtained and smuggled out of Italy in 1925-26 and 1932-33. The biography, he said, is an attempt to prevent the building of a new "Napoleonic Legend" by reconstructing a picture of Mussolini's early career while the facts are still obtainable and the picture not permanently distorted...
...Overland Express (Coronet-Columbia). One April day 78 years ago two crack horsemen set out lickety-split, one from Sacramento, Calif., the other from St. Joseph, Mo., to inaugurate the Pony Express and start a legend that is still galloping. Last week, while towns along the oldtime route were restoring some of the legendary landmarks, cinema's hardest-riding Western star, resolute, weather-beaten Buck Jones, was blazing the trail again for the younger generation. Pledged to abstain from profanity and hard liquor, Buck and his heck-for-leather pony riders yippee forth on their foam-flecked ponies, carry...
Because last week was the 100th running of the Grand National, the old-legend of the founding of steeplechasing was retold more frequently than usual-how one hot night in the early 1770s a befuddled country squire led his guests out in their night-shirts, mounted them, and led them in a wild race over hedge, fence & field to distant Nachton Village Church steeple. A view of the finish of that first steeplechase was engraved by John Harris in 1839, the year of the first Grand National. That year and for over two decades afterwards all steeplechases had a faintly...
...Village; in England by the no-less-eccentric brilliance of writers like Ronald Firbank, who always carried a few lumps of coal in his suitcase to remind him where his family got its money. Like Firbank, "Kit" Wood was a well-to-do, social young man who became a legend, but the legend is of a singularly pure artist whom nobody laughed at, everybody liked and Londoners have become sentimental about...
...TIME, Nov. 29), many an observer wondered how soon Mr. Hearst would begin to sell the rest of his hoard. The total Hearst collection of art and art objects has never been catalogued except in its owner's capacious memory, but its monstrous character has been a popular legend for years. Last autumn the New Yorker tried to investigate one of the five Hearst warehouses, a square block building in The Bronx, and reported rumors that besides a dim array of armor and some mummies it contained two palaces and a church, in pieces...