Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Copey, most famous of Harvard traditions, and now become a living legend, speaks to the nation on Saturday night at 10.45 o'clock, when he gives a reading over the Columbia station WAAB, on a nation-wide hook-up. His readings will be Kipling's Mandalay" and Leacock's "My Financial Adventures...
Last fortnight the Associated Press innocently carried the hoary old legend again, this time dated from Oravisa, Yugoslavia. Excerpts...
...French. He finally succeeded. But according to Historian Philip Guedalla he should have died on the day of his coronation. For the story which Guedalla told in his The Second Empire is one of anticlimax, of a nouveau riche court, a theme for irony and wisecracks, the Napoleonic legend reduced to farce. "The gaslit tragedy of the Second Empire," Guedalla contemptuously called the regime which was born in intrigue in the early 1850's, found its Empress in the granddaughter of a foreign keeper of a wine shop, and collapsed in a shambles when Bismarck and Moltke sent their...
Neumann, while alive to the contemporary parallels in the story of the third Napoleon, does not go out of his way to stress them. He is more concerned with the pernicious effects of an inherited legend upon a nice young man. Through Le Bas, the young Louis' Jacobin tutor, he dins it in that the boy had no chance to develop normally. All his life he was subjected to a forcing process, whether at home in Switzerland or at the Artillery School at Thun. Hortense, Louis' mother, was soaked in the Napoleonic idea. The daughter of Josephine...
According to legend, John A. Heydler, who last month retired as president of the National League, was the first man to keep batting, pitching and fielding averages. No. 1 contemporary baseball statistician is a one-legged, dyspeptic North Carolinian named Al Munro Elias. Started in 1917, the Al Munro Elias Baseball Bureau Inc. now supplies some 1,000 U. S. newspapers with daily & weekly statistics, releases yearly "unofficial" figures promptly at each season's close. The strange offices of the Al Munro Elias Bureau on Manhattan's 42nd Street contain the most elaborate baseball library in the world...