Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gallipolis hangs a wrought-iron sign, silhouetting a likeness of McIntyre at a typewriter. A legend beneath reads: "Boyhood home of O. O. McIntyre. Famous newspaperman and now writer of New York Day By Day." The Gallipolis Tribune proudly runs his column on the front page...
...affable. At M-G-M his most successful ventures were Viva Villa and David Copperfield, two of the most expensive pictures of last year. Of United Artists' 1935-36 schedule of 30 pictures, Producer Selznick will probably make six. The company which next autumn will revive the legend, obsolete for 13 years, "Selznick Presents" will be called David O. Selznick Productions, Inc. It will have no slogan...
...frequently expressed his distaste for U. S. civilization, for "all that is energetic, swift, rapid ... all competition, rivalry, all striving in the race for success"; had characterized New York as a monstrous "city walled up to the sky and roaring like the sea." Since his death in 1904 the legend has grown that he was a writer whose great natural gifts were frustrated, that his slight and graceful essays are no true indication of his stature. Critics w?ho believe that the U. S. is death to genius have found in his desperate wanderings, in the expressions of loneliness...
...evidence, Clark methodically contradicts much of the Leonardo legend. He redates work wholesale, disqualifies many supposed Leonardos, includes some new ones. Made hypercautious by the fact that Leonardo kept returning to the same subjects and types from beginning to end of his career, Clark sets up a few known facts...
...Bertrand Blanchard ("Bert") Acosta was chief pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight. According to legend, Byrd had to hit him over the head with a fire extinguisher when he got out of hand during the flight. Drink had by that time made him a "physical wreck," according to no less an authority than Anthony H. G. ("Tony") Fokker. Acosta's reply was that "Tony Fokker can go to hell...