Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beyond question one of the great men of U. S. industry and finance. Many great lawyers have been members of the Cabinet but he was the first great financier-industrialist ever to hold such a post. Hence a sentimental public, once it knew who he was, fostered the legend that he was "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton...
...Albany. The Albany clerks eventually bought him a collar, stamped on it a request that post office clerks elsewhere attach to it the names of the offices Owney visited. When the collar became too heavy for Owney, the Albany clerks replaced it with a harness. He became a legend in post offices all over...
Hollywood legend has it that when Director Ernst Lubitsch went there he could think of no better use for the many drawers of his huge, flat-top desk than to grow mushrooms in them. So he interlarded bricks of mushroom spawn and fresh horse manure in the drawers, drew many an inquisitive sniff from visitors but never produced a mushroom...
...Stella) are today practically unread and unreadable, and his career no more interesting than that of half a dozen forgotten contemporaries, the aura of that fame has clung intact to his name ever since. Biographers have carefully recorded the facts of his career (better documented, less clouded by legend than most Elizabethans), have noted that his death inspired more than 200 elegies exhausting the superlatives of friends and enemies alike. W?here biographers have struck a snag has been in trying to make convincing a personality to justify these tributes. Latest try is Alfred H. Bill's Astrophel. Written...
...historical drama about a party of 18th Century French intellectuals who haggle about the Revolution right up to the moment the Revolution walks in the door, is to be given next month. Last week Poet Benet's show, an operetta based on Washington Irving's A Legend of Sleepy Hollow, had its radio premiere over NBC's Blue Network. Consensus was that artistically, CBS still had the bulge...