Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That tale is now a Detroit legend. Police estimated the crowd at 100,000, and Nancy Brown began to rival Edgar A. Guest of the Detroit Free Press as the city's top literary figure. When she announced a religious Sunrise Service for her Column Family on Belle Isle last year, some 30,000 Detroiters crawled out of bed to attend. For a similar service this year attendance jumped, in Editor Gilmore's reckoning, by "two and a half acres" of people. When that alert local preacher named Edgar DeWitt Jones volunteered as Column Chaplain and invited Column...
...city's outskirts to be greeted by the Commandant, by Georgia's Senators Russell and George. All that Atlanta saw of Governor Eugene Talmadge, archfoe of the New Deal, that day was a stuffed effigy, red suspenders and all, hanging in the Capitol grounds and bearing the legend "Coolidge did not choose to run. Gene needn...
...incision when normal delivery is dangerous or impossible, is one of the most famed and spectacular of major operations. The classic Caesarean involves an incision from the umbilicus to the pubis, through the abdominal wall, peritoneum and uterine wall. The Caesarean section is named for Julius Caesar, who by legend was thus delivered from his mother. First actually recorded Caesarean on a living woman was performed about 1500 by a Swiss pig-gelder on his wife...
...longer and more inclusive The Romantic Rebels comes with her record of the same period. The Romantic Rebels explores the interwoven lives of Byron, Keats, Shelley, gives an impression of diffuseness in comparison with Peter Quennell's vivid portrait. Even readers thoroughly familiar with the Byron legend are likely to find Byron: The Years of Fame absorbing reading, both for the sprightliness of Peter Quennell's prose and for his occasional daring insights. The Romantic Rebels places Byron's life in perspective with the astonishing careers of Keats and Shelley, paints the three poets and their wives...
Some two thousand years ago legend ran that a certain king of Pisa in Elis, OEnomaus by name, refused the hand of his fair daughter save to that gallant Greek youth who should beat him in a chariot-race. Suitor after suitor tried and failed, for OEnomaus was a skillful warrior--but at last and one must suspect with the help of Hymen--a young prince "from over sea", triumphed. That was Pelops...