Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legend of Faust is brought up to date and dramatized in Marquisian manner. Sample: "Faust: Is not a Good Woman one of the noblest works of God? Mephisto: It is more terrible than that, even: God is one of the subtlest inventions of the Good Woman...
Superstitious peasants expected all this good fortune before the first buds broke on the carefully pruned canes last spring. It is ancient legend that wines will be great in any year in which there are two full moons in a given calendar month. Nineteen-Thirty-Four was doubly blessed. Full moons shone Jan. 1 and 30, again March...
...first mates on ships - and as anonymous. Yet many and many a newsreader who never heard of his own paper's city editor, knows about Stanley Walker. In six years as city editor of the New York Herald Tribune youthful Stanley Walker has be come something of a legend. He has escaped the anonymity of desk work often enough to produce articles for Harper's, American Mercury, Forum and The New Yorker, a best-selling book (The Night Club Era ) and to pose for a full-page testimonial for Gruen watches in the Satevepost. He is reputed...
...paying the requested sum, a customer could dance with the girl and know that within a very few minutes, the evening would be endurable. Two groups of debutantes would not be priced, however. Those who spend the evening in the midst of a riot will bear the simple legend, "a safe bet" while those who find solitude their best companion, will be tagged, "No bids accepted...
...Brewer has not done it, but he has shown the possibilities. A veteran of the U. S. Air Service in France, Poet Brewer sings a long paean to his old comrades of Tours, Issoudun and the Western Front. Riders of the Sky, "a combination of fact and fiction and legend," brings in many an actual person and event. Some of the characters: "Gil" Winant (now Governor of New Hampshire), Eddie Rickenbacker, the late Quentin Roosevelt, Frank Luke, "Hobey" Baker. Author Brewer's reference to himself among the catalog of heroes is modest...