Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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True frankness is always surprising, and Author Wells surprises the reader more than once. Says he: "You will discover a great deal of evasion and refusal in my story. . . . There is a sort of journalistic legend that I am a person of boundless enthusiasm and energy. Nothing could be further from the reality. For all my desire to be interested I have to confess that for most things and people I don't care a damn. Writing numbers of books and articles is evidence not of energy but of sedentary habits." He speaks gratefully of "the pleasures, the very real...
...great legend of King George today is that Britain's markedly successful National Government sprang from a discreet stroke of statecraft by His Majesty. Three years ago George V is supposed to have persuaded James Ramsay MacDonald to desert his Labor colleagues of a lifetime and become the vote-getting figurehead of the so-called National (but in fact Conservative) Government (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Always the King is represented as a tower of moral strength, aiding his conscience-torn Scottish Prime Minister to decide between Labor and the Nation. Last week this pristine royal legend was rudely spattered...
...whole Thyssen legend trembled. Eminent Groper Johannes Steel, author of The Second World War and dopester on Nazidom for Manhattan's Post, clarioned: "Fritz Thyssen is taking his money out of Germany. Thyssen, Germany's lord and master, has no confidence any more in Germany. . . . The exact amount of the capital which he managed to get out of Germany is not known, but it is certain to be no small sum, for several new Thyssen holding companies in South America are being formed...
...years ago Sculptor Carl Milles, recalling this familiar legend, won a competition with a sketch of a fountain to be placed in front of Stockholm's Concert Hall. Last week Carl Milles had finished the last of the plaster models of his Orpheus group. He and they were on their way to Stockholm where the models will be cast in dark green bronze. The fountain will be completed...
...that group the events of 1926 are veiled in legend. Today is one which starts a new era in our athletic history, one which must be conducted with good feeling and high standards. Ours is the pleasure to witness the first tests of this rebuilded chain, ours the task to keep it whole...