Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been provided for the guardedly anonymous editorial staff, who are still confined in file-cramped cubicles on three floors of the old Times building. Those ancient floors are joined at each end by a winding staircase and the Times's famed lift-"Full load, 3 persons"-in which, legend has it, the great Editor Dawson was once marooned between floors for an hour, copy for an important "leader" article quivering in his hand...
...beetling, black-browed Viennese with a thick accent and a passion for hotels is Ralph Hitz, president of National Hotel Management Co., Inc. According to legend, this son of an Austrian horse dealer ran away from home to become an elevator boy in Vienna's Hotel Sacher, was coaxed back into the family on the promise of being taken to New York. Three days after he arrived in 1906, prodigal, 15-year-old Ralph Hitz ran away again, became a $3-a-weekbusboy in a Broadway hashhouse. Then for nine years he crisscrossed the U. S., paying far more...
Although the legend of Troy exerts less influence on the imaginations of men in the present day and age than perhaps for many decades, nevertheless the most illiterate school-child is familiar with the fundamentals of the story,--the struggle of the Goddesses for the Golden Apple, its award by Paris to Venus, the faithlessness of Helen to her Greek King-husband Menelaus, and the subsequent war on the windy plains, and ultimate disaster. These are the events told by Homer in lines that for the few who still can taste them in this apostate age are the ultimate...
...hothouses full of orchids which she likes to give to fellow townfolk. She has also given them an old ladies' home, athletic field, set of chimes. The Knox factory pretty completely supports Johnstown and in 1929 Knox employes tacked up a plaque in their lobby with the legend HAPPINESS HEADQUARTERS...
...spendings for bread and beer, Christopher Marlowe reaches its high point in its account of the poet's death. Until Dr. John Leslie Hotson published the coroner's inquest on Marlowe twelve years ago, uncovering a 330-year-old mystery, biographers had been forced to accept the legend that had him killed in a brawl over an anonymous "lewd wench" in an unnamed London tavern. Early Puritan writers considered Marlowe's terrible end at the age of 29 and at the height of his fame a just punishment for his atheism, wrote "See what a hooke...