Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the portraits of eminent men of letters usually show features as battered as those of heavyweight prizefighters, the legend persists that the literary life is genteel, academic, serene. Last week three survivors of many a literary free-for-all contradicted the legend with their autobiographies, offering three pictures of those ceaseless struggles that revolve around books and that are fought with the weapons of reviews, debates, lectures, gossip. Gilbert Keith Chesterton wrote of his literary life with all the suavity and aplomb of a generous victor. Poet Edgar Lee Masters described his with all the bitterness of admitted defeat...
...balloon bearing the legend "It can't happen here," and raised shortly after the fifth touchdown, expressed the sentiments of many amazed Harvard fans who had sat through more than one gloomy rout in recent years...
...saying: "You're Sentenced to a Weekly Pay Reduction for All of Your Working Life. You'll have to Serve the Sentence unless you help Reverse it Nov. 3." Others slipped notices about the forgotten tax into pay envelopes. Still others distributed pay envelopes bearing the printed legend: PAY DEDUCTION...
...blind William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, who left his pyramid unfinished when he died last spring at the age of 85. Believing that the worms of decay were making fast work within the body of society, "Coin" Harvey planned to place at his pyramid's summit the steel-lettered legend: Go below and find the cause of the death of a civilization...
...second mural depicts the legend known as "The Twilight of the Gods". Here the final battle between Gods and Giants is taking place, with the Gods ranged on the left, armed with spears and halberds, facing the Giants on the right, who are fitted out with gas masks, cylinders and a flame thrower. Mr. Rubenstein is attempting to represent the attack of the Giants on Asgard, the home of the Gods, where such a great struggle took place that the earth trembled, and wiped out the existing race. This animated scene has been translated by commotion-seekers into the attack...