Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...follows: Sir Amadorr, Sir Homodorr, Sir Fedelidorr, Sir Paleodorr, Sir Florodorr, Sir Animadorr, and Sir Lexidorr. The officers Columbia must also be a coed, and her knights are as follows: Officer Diodorr, Officer Geodorr, Officer Astrodorr, Officer Philosodorr, Officer Heliodorr, Officer Logosodorr, and Officer Phrenodorr. The Lady Legend Keeper and seven Lady Officers who are readers in the Temple ought also to be coeds. That "The Temple of Peace" be read from the book in the order given by the representative officers and lady officers of the Knights of the Commonwealths in the same manner affected by actors...
...Philoctetes of Sophocles, which is to be presented Wednesday and Friday of this week by the Harvard Classical Club, was a work of the poet's extreme old age, for it was produced when he was eighty-seven. The legend of the wounded hero abandoned by the Greeks on Lemnos on their way to Troy, and later eagerly sought by them when he and his famous bow were needed for the capture of the city, had been treated by both Aeschylus and Euripides. Sophocles made changes in the myth which lift the plot from the level of a common intrigue...
...down the resolve of Philoctetes, but the latter remains firm until his apotheosized friend Heracles appears as deus ex machine to bid Philoctetes go to Troy as the command of the gods. So Sophocles satisfied his own principle of the invincible will and at the same time followed the legend. Even in the evening of his days, which must have been shadowed by the approaching ruin of Athens, he could draw with a sure hand the hero embittered by suffering and injustice...
There was not at the time of the election of Professor Chase to the presidency, nor has there been since, any division of the faculty along sectional lines. There has never been an organized group of the faculty known as the "Damyankees." TIME is here adding another legend to the already voluminous apocrypha of Chapel Hill. Of course the epithet "Damyankee" is occasionally applied with facetious intent to one or another of the faculty, both by Northerners and by Southerners, but the idea of forming an organization along these lines excites mirth...
...Montana and South Dakota." It called itself a "gladiator invincible, fearless, determined, with a giant's strength, a philosopher's mentality. . . . The champion of every good, and pure, and noble, and holy and righteous cause. . . ." Sprinkled through its pages (and always over fair weather reports) was the legend "'Tis a Privilege to Live in Colorado." Bloodiest stories and pictures of corpses were sanctified by the watchword: "Crime Never Pays." On October 12, 1931 the Post's streamer read: CHRIS COLUMBUS DISCOVERS AMERICA...