Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aintree, Four-and-a-half miles over 30 prodigious jumps with hedges so thick that legend says a man can walk on them, the Grand National is the hardest horse race in the world. Winner by three lengths at odds of 100-to-6 last week was Royal Mail, ridden by Evan Williams and owned by Hugh Lloyd Thomas, charge d'affaires at the British Embassy in Paris. Second was James Rank's Cooleen, third, E. W. W. Bailey's Pucka Belle...
...bespectacled Priest Shigefuji became a Rinban of equal rank with Rinban Masuyama. Next morning a Hana-matsuri, or flower festival, took place in honor of Buddha's 2,50311! birthday (April 8), with the two Rinbans pouring sweet water on the gold statue in commemoration of the legend that sweet rain fell when Buddha was born. Finally, at Fresno High School athletic field, members of Young Men's Buddhist Associations competed in a Japanese Olympic...
...preface, Maurice Buxton Forman thought their evidence should at last lay the legend of Fanny Brawne's heartlessness, establish her as the worthy sweetheart of a great poet. Lay readers could not see that, short of reading between the lines with a very sympathetic eye, the letters changed matters much one way or the other...
...local constabulary, the kids round up the yeggs. Blackamoor Verman finds a new home, Penrod's dad makes peace with Banker Bitts. Billy Mauch is the boy who played the young Anthony Adverse. He has an equally talented twin, Bobby Mauch, whose mother, according to Hollywood legend, cannot tell them apart. The Mauches will play the dual leads in Warner's forthcoming The Prince & the Pauper. Best shot: Verman telling what he saw in the barn...
More likely, though, the Kiphuth tradition has them worried. It's almost as bad as the Dartmouth jinx. Only, the legend that Bob has built up is not based on luck. There are long and tedious grinds through the tank, novel exercises and constant experimentation...