Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week New York's Police Commissioner Valentine issued a new safety campaign poster. Across the top were the words: A PRICE GREATER THAN WAR. On the left was a battle scene with the legend: "WAR-A. E. F.. 18 Months...
...Economic Struggle, showing in broad cartoon masses the peasant, his sad wife and child, his grain and his disastrous relations with the middlemen. Overhead O'Higgins has put a massive design of factories, cannon, two soldiers fighting to the death under the calm gaze of a fat overlord. Legend: "Against Imperialistic...
...hypothesis that life may be indefinitely prolonged in a human being by broiling him over a phenomenally hot flame. With this point firmly in mind, the scientist's nephew Leo Vincey (Randolph Scott) and his associate (Nigel Bruce) begin paddling off to the Siberian wilds where a family legend indicates that an ancestor named John Vincey encountered such a flame 500 years before. Thereupon She ceases to be concerned with test tubes and laboratory riddles, becomes an honest and ingratiating example of the pipe-dream cinema, full of glaciers, cannibals, underground kingdoms, mystic vapors and supernatural dilemmas calculated...
...Crow engaged in a curious custom of wife-stealing, and after a general reshuffling of households the stolen wives were usually turned loose, could enter any wigwam save that of a onetime husband. Gray-bull, a chief who gave Ethnologist Lowie much information on ancient Crow ways and legend, had been a savage Galahad in his youth. Deeply loving his wife, he had nevertheless forced her to accompany her kidnapper out of respect for Crow etiquette. "If you have ever been married, you know how I felt," the old Crow told Ethnologist Lowie. Had he resisted or taken her back...
...greeted by an army of reporters to whom he gave a characteristic opinion of New York: "Don't see anything unusual about anything here, looks about the same as Detroit or Chicago." He likes to sing but finds it hard because he cannot remember words of songs. The legend that Joe Louis reads a Bible between rounds of his fights is unfounded. He has a Bible which he often reads, opening it at random because he usually forgets what he has read before. His preternatural reluctance to talk about himself or other matters is one of the traits that...