Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many centuries ago, runs a Chinese legend, a lion wandering through a forest spied a monkey and fell in love with her. Despairing at the discrepancy in their sizes, he prayed his lord & protector Buddha that he might be dwarfed. Buddha answered the plea of the lion, who promptly married his monkey-love. . . . One result of that storied union was to be seen last week in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel...
...with which Jubilee Hall was built to replace the Union barracks. As the singers went on advertising the University, Fisk equipment grew until the first stack of spelling books and New Testaments, bought by selling for old iron the rusty handcuffs from Nashville's slavepens, became a legend. Now there are 25 well-equipped campus buildings at Fisk (not counting the nearby grocery store where students go to eat fried fish). Academically it has Class A rating...
...sober industry. He willed his textile mills to his sober youngest son. Charles A. Cannon proved the wisdom of this move by running them so ably that in 1918 the U. S. soldiers who were smoking Camel cigarets were drying themselves with Cannon towels embroidered with such fiery legends as "To Hell with the Kaiser" and "In God We Trust." By 1930, Charles A. Cannon had introduced the vogue for colored towels; the Cannon mills made 65% of the towels in the U. S. It might therefore have seemed that a wedding between Anne Cannon, daughter of the oldest...
...buying & selling practices on U. S. stock exchanges (TIME, July 4). They began by poking in the ashes of Kreuger's matchdom. Witnesses brought the Committee up to date on Kreuger history but were unable to shake Senator Reynolds's firm belief in the No. 1 Kreuger legend: that Ivar Kreuger's death was as false as his life. Lesser legends added recently to the great book of Kreuger lore...
...wedding, in Washington, just after Haw Tabor had wangled himself a seat in the U. S. Senate. Tabor spent $1,000 on a silk and lace nightshirt with gold buttons; he was swindled out of a fortune trying to buy as a present for his wife the jewels which legend says Queen Isabella pawned to finance Christopher Columbus; for great occasions he sprinkled gold dust on his carriage horses. William Jennings Bryan, when he saw Tabor's daughter, said her laugh had the ring of a silver dollar. Tabor had her christened Rosemary Silver Dollar Echo Honeymoon Tabor. When...