Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 20 years ago a high-calibre Colombian general named Virgilio Barco journeyed to Manhattan to sell an oil concession he held on 1,200,000 acres of his native jungle, dropped into the Standard Oil Building. Legend is that he got no farther than the gate: suspicious of his torrent of Spanish, the bomb-conscious guards summarily ejected him through the door. Thereafter the proud Colombian refused to have any dealing with Standard Oil of New Jersey. His concession was snapped up by Promoter Carl Kendriok MacFadden for his Carib Syndicate, Ltd., which kept a minority interest, sold...
...stretch out on the divan but Madame slays me with her heavy weights, which she drops upon me, defenseless, as I lie. So that I find no comfort, and rising, pick up the small brown Mermaid books that stand between my dachshund bookends. The title-page bears the legend, from Beaumont, "I lie and dream of your full Mermaid wine". The books are plays of Beaumont and Fletcher...
...rapidly covers is ample subject for a book in itself. Chautauquans and Rochesterians, especially those who are both, have good reason to complain of the treatment accorded them. But they come off well compared with Buffalo which gets about a page, and Syracuse which gets nothing. The beautiful and legend-haunted Otsego country, home of Fenimore Cooper, is also completely neglected...
Johnny Johnson (words by Paul Green, music by Kurt Weill; Group Theatre, producer) is described by its authors as "a legend." It is also a fable, a fantasy, a dream of peace and goodwill stated in terms so simple and childlike that, while it may irritate the sophisticated, it should please the pure in heart...
...travail came the Digest with a cheerful, sporting handling of its own and other poll scores. Good-humored Editor Wilfred J. Funk, who himself had wagered no money on the election, featured on his magazine's first page a small facsimile Digest cover encircling the legend, "IS OUR FACE RED!" Beneath this he printed a cartoon by Edmund Duffy of the Baltimore Sun in which a battered GOPolitician clutches a horsewhip and growls into a telephone: "Literary Digest? Lemme talk to the editor!" Surrounding text went...