Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petition bears the legend "The undersigned respectfully request the management of the University Theatre to remove from its programs within a reasonably short period, the Hearst Metrotone News because we feel that its interpretation of news is neither fair nor in the best interests of the of the American people...
...always given his readers their money's worth. Drums, Marching On, Long Hunt were all lengthy historical romances in which many a reader took great stock; some captious critics found the stock somewhat watered, but Author Boyd has established his reputation as a popularizer of U. S. legend. No mere praiser of times past, and not willing to go on forever writing melodramas of an earlier day, in Roll River he has come to grips with...
...transparency of being, the characteristic recurrence of the prototype." This is the theme, unpopular in an individualistic day, which opens up like a never-ending vista from Author Mann's pages. As a mere tour de force, in revivifying the fossilized record of a universally familiar legend. Young Joseph would be a masterpiece, but it is far more than a clever conjuring trick. In this installment, which covers only a few years of Joseph's life, leaves him. at the point where he is sold to the Ishmaelites and carried to Egypt, Author Mann's deceptively quiet...
...reputation grows continually greater, nourished by the gratitude of his pupils and the admiring recognition of his peers. He was already a legendary figure when he was young. He will be a legendary figure when he is old. For the legend expresses a realization by Harvard men that they have among them an incomparable teacher
Government politicians did not want to sacrifice Dr. Minobe, who had only said what they all privately believed, but they did not dare officially deny the official legend that the Emperor is "a super-individual divine human being." Though they declined to charge Dr. Minobe with lese-majeste, the Cabinet did order the Home Minister to suppress Dr. Minobe's two textbooks, Essentials of Constitutional Law and A Course in Constitutional...