Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solution: Paris Jews had printed thousands of posters with the legend "Don't buy German goods." On the poster was reproduced the Nazi swastika. Pasted on windshields, the posters looked more or less like the Nazi flag...
...body of legend surrounds Washington's false teeth. The Stuart Athenaeum portrait, which the Washington family refused to accept, pictorially reports with great accuracy the distortion which the clumsy plates caused in the First President's face. Dr. Greenwood counseled filling with candle wax holes eroded in the teeth by mouth acids. Washington is said to have stopped at a blacksmith shop for repairs on one occasion. It is also said that the springs were likely to stick, setting the President's mouth agape if he opened it too wide...
...portrait of Amy Lowell, sister of President Lowell, is the first picture of a woman to be hung in Lowell House, and the second in the University's portrait collection since early in Harvard history. Miss Lowell who, according to legend, smoked big, black cigars, and said. "I'm the only member of the Lowell family who is worth a damn," was one of the foremost Imagist poets...
...sizeable U. S. university has a collection of barnacle-like "tutoring schools" which gain fat fees by cramming predigested knowledge into dullards and lazybones. The tutor is usually a shrewd, undersized person who was at one time the "whiz" or "shark" of his college class. There is usually a legend that he has been offered enormous sums to take a college professorship. He works in a grimy, smoke-laden office, his shirt-sleeves rolled up, is busiest when examination time approaches. His stock-in-trade is a file of old examination papers, a collection of mimeographed texts, outlines, shortcuts. That...
Carolina Martinez de Arrizola. According to legend he presented her with two sons and a complaisant husband, one Sanz. In 1885 Alfonso XII suddenly died. Three months after his death it was suddenly announced that the Queen was pregnant. Three months later Alfonso XIII was born and the little Sanz y Martinez de Arrizola boys, aged 2 and 5, were hastily smuggled to France...