Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beloved Enemy (Samuel Goldwyn) is billed as a "legend inspired by fact." The fact is the Irish rebellion of 1921. The legend, as presented by Writers John Balderston, William Meloney & Rose Franken, should certainly raise the eyebrows of students of recent Irish history. As the hero of the ''trouble," it presents a romantic young patriot named Dennis Riordan (Brian Aherne). It derives the Irish Free State's Constitution from a few words that pass between him and his English inamorata. Lady Helen Drummond (Merle Oberon...
...remove these flaws, began toying with helicopters (planes with the propeller faced vertically). He got the idea of disconnecting the helicopter propeller from the engine, enlarging it. Result in 1920 was the first autogiro, which did not fly. Neither did the second or third model. Then, according to legend, Music Lover de la Cierva and his wife were at an operatic version of Don Quixote when he noticed that the flexible blades of the stage windmill flapped slightly as they turned. He made the rotor blades of his next giro flexible. In January 1923, it flew...
...theme of the north wall is derived from the ancient Niebelung Legend and is symbolic of greed for power and its resultant oppression of humanity. The lunette above the door represents the cavern of Niebelheim. The dwarfs who inhabit this underground region are working to create the destructive wealth of the world, symbolized in the legend by the Ring forged from the Rhine gold, for their ruler, Alberich, who is lashing them on to greater labors...
...subject depicted on the east wall is taken from the Norse legend, the "Ragnarok," the Doom of the Gods. The story is a very old one, taken from the "Elder Edda," as Icelandic tale of the Middle Ages...
...legend states, "All the earth shall tremble so, and the crags, that trees shall be torn up from the earth, and the crags fall to ruin; and all fetters and bonds shall be broken and rent. . . . In this din shall the heavens be cloven, and the sons of Muspell ride thence: Sutr shall ride first and both before and after him burning fire." Leading the giants is the traitor Loki, holding a flame thrower, and Frey, who opposes him is swept by flames. Thor, the thunder god, rushes to the attack, wielding his mighty workman's hammer...