Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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C.C.C. uniform, staring sternly into the eyes of all citizens and pointing to a flaming forest. Its legend...
...June 7). For Southern California it is worse that it contains a bridge which has made a lot of horrid news- Pasadena's notorious "suicide bridge," the long, aqueduct-like structure spanning 158½-ft.-deep Arroyo Seco in which squats the Rose Bowl. According to local legend, when this bridge was built in 1912, several workmen were buried alive in the concrete and their tortured spirits haunt the place. Certainly it has been a sorry spot: fortnight ago the 88th person jumped to death over its low parapet...
...Coryell Packards, the Fierce-Arrow, the Cadillac or the Ford, and drive to work. They have a joint office and gold-plated telephones on the same wire. Whenever one receives a call the other picks up his receiver and listens in. It is a Coryell legend that while either Coryell is away on business a stenographer takes down all telephone conversations for him to read on his return. Whenever the Coryells part for any unusual length of time, they go into a standardized embrace...
...more than a name to them, and Sembrich a vivid, unforgettable presence. Each had worked tirelessly to establish Brahms in the U. S. Each had seen Debussy's worth when inferiors were yelping about his "decadence" and "lack of form." The great fight over Wagner was no legend to them: they had helped...
...campus in the same yellowish house as Footballer Phil Spartacus Conti. Tall, slender, dark-haired, quiet, he got "gentle-men's" grades in his studies, became Phi Gamma Delta ping-pong champion, was rated a good beer drinker. Over the mantel in his disorderly room was the legend: "Commend a wedded life but keep thyself a bachelor...