Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...classrooms and 119 laboratories, this ceremony was only Chancellor Bowman's way of spurring wealthy Pittsburgh to further contributions. He has already raised some $22,000,000 for his university and wants $10,000,000 more, is so determined a money-getter that he has become a Pittsburgh legend. He once walked into a meeting of Westinghouse Electric executives, planked a pottery vase down before startled Board Chairman Andrew Wells Robertson, recited Keats's Ode to a Grecian Urn, and walked out with...
...Service (by John Murray & Allen Boretz; George Abbott, producer) does for shoestring theatrical producing what Producer Abbott's Boy Meets Girl did for Hollywood and his Three Men On A Horse did for horse racing. It pumps its subject full of fun in veterinary doses. Than this pinchbeck legend of Longacre Square, there is no funnier show in town...
Then another son of Finn Mac Cool's leaped into her mouth, and when he had passed into her chest (this is the legend's anatomy, not mine) he bethought him of his knife. With it, he made a gash in the monster's side which killed her. " 'Twas a wonderful slaughter," says the tale, putting the statement, for modesty's sake, in parentheses...
...Crown Derby dinner services, Georgian silver, Oriental table screens, crystal candelabra, needlepoint armchairs, Elizabethan joint-stools, satinwood bedsteads, Jacobean armchairs, cut-glass fingerbowls, Flemish oak chests, potted palms, tooled leather wastebaskets and bronze andirons, they saw enough to stock all the dealers in Manhattan. Of the great art which legend maintained was "Inisfada's" glory, they saw little. Artistically respectable by most current standards was the garden-sculpture of Malvina Hoffman, auctioned off in situ among the rose bushes. For the rest, it appeared that the Bradys, in their assiduous years of collecting, had amassed a store...
...distributed in Manhattan by its editors, elsewhere by itinerants at 5? a copy— 10? "if we can get it." Current edition: 50,000 copies. In an effort to avoid just such an embarrassing situation as Editor Benson found himself in last week, on the back cover appears the legend: NOTICE TO POLICE—This is a Bona Fide Newspaper...