Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trim, healthful, brand new homes now occupied by 60,000 War veterans on the former Pontine Marshes. So persistent was local belief that it was Death to live on these once malarial lands, that II Duce had to recruit his colonists in distant parts of Italy where the legend of Death was but dimly known. Today middle-class Romans are scrambling for plots on which to build summer homes bordering a pretty lake near one of the new cities in Litoria. The whole project is Benito Mussolini's particular pet, enjoys the enviable status of being operated...
...Napoleon Bonaparte had been Emperor of the French. In this short time the country had recovered from a state of revolutionary chaos and was now without question the leading power on the continent of Europe. Twice the Emperor had led the people into war, both times successfully. Meanwhile a legend had grown up around him. He was considered variously as a Mephistopheles, a weakling, a fool, and an iron man. Now, in 1870 the time had arrived to test the legend. Prepared "to the last gaiter button," the famous French army, victors of Sebastopol and Solforino, awaited the coming...
Successive generations of historians, poets and playwrights have expanded the Washington legend, tried to figure out for themselves what manner of man this liberator was. In Manhattan this week a fine dramatic society, a fine playwright and a fine actor combine to render a new portrait of the Father of His Country. The Theatre Guild presents Maxwell Anderson's Valley Forge, with Philip Merivale as Washington...
...were the 10,000 tobacco farmers who poured into Carrollton, Ky. one day last week to help celebrate Carrollton's first annual tobacco festival. They guffawed when a big black hearse lumbered into position at the head of a half-mile parade. Emblazoned on its side was the legend: OLD TOBACCO PRICES-SIX FEET UNDER THE SOD. To the blare of a 40-piece band they marched through the business streets of Carrollton to the Henry County Tobacco Warehouse. When somebody yelled "C'mon folks, the burgoo's ready!" they broke ranks, stampeded for the warehouse platform...
...Nobel Prize came at a happy moment for Luigi Pirandello. Last spring he did the libretto for an opera called The Legend of the Changeling Son which was loudly booed at its Roman premiere. Benito Mussolini had it recalled for "moral incongruity" while the well-trained Italian Press chorused "un-Fascist...