Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Charles de la Poer Beresford, seventh Marquess of Waterford, 33; accidentally (shotgun); in Portlaw, County Waterford, Irish Free State. Legend held that a curse of violent deaths had been put on seven generations of his family; the third Marquess died of a fall in the hunting field; the fifth shot himself; the sixth drowned...
...Legend: Aboard the Hussar was $4,000,000 in gold destined for British troops. (A U. S. correspondent, searching through admiralty and treasury files in London, found no record of lost gold. Yet an historian of Manhattan Island-Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes-reports that the Hussar's rudder was recovered in 1811, that attempts to recover the treasure were made in 1818 and 1824, that some gold was actually brought up in 1856 by Worcester Hussar...
...fashioned a film in which the treatment and setting subordinate the plot and acting. The story is based on an ancient legend of the Dolomite mountain-folk, that of the fatal attraction of the "blue light" which shines forth from the craggy peak of Mount Christallo, luring the young men of Santa Maria to their deaths. Only one person had climbed to the top and uncovered the secret of the mountain, a comely Italian girl, banished from the village for suspicion of witchcraft. One day a young artist, attracted by her beauty, followed her to the "light" and discovered...
...stern a guardian of the continent. But through the rock, and beyond that cape, men knew as Vincent, sailed the fleet. Beyond, lay they know not what. To sail their vessels they had men who were not sailors, to cheer their thoughts they had facts which were but legend, but to guide their steps they had the courage of the man Columbus...
...Bucharest ghetto, legend enshrouds the wiles by which the junk dealer's daughter became La Pompadour. She is supposed to have learned that Carol would drive back one night along a certain woodland road. As the headlights of the royal car cut the darkness, out into the road staggered beauteous Magda, her clothing enticingly torn, her red hair flying. "Save me!" she cried and Carol, struck by her beauty, took her home, has been held by her charm ever since...