Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to ancient Greek legend, Aphrodite is remembered as having risen naked from the sea, not in draperies. Also, she was a goddess of fair weather, "giver of prosperous voyages," would not likely have been born in a blizzard...
There has long been a story current in the Carolinas as to the reason for the fence beside which "Bull" Durham has stood alone for so many years. This legend is that the original "Bull" was offensive to the ladies of the Durham, N. C. Methodist Churches and through their Aid Societies they appealed to Mr. James Buchanan ["Buck"] Duke, the late benefactor of Duke University, and himself a devout Methodist, and Mr. Duke, like California Educational Director Edward Lloyd Lomax appeased the ladies by erecting a fence hiding the objections...
...born on Midsummer's Day, when legend held that Lordly Ones walked the earth to steal earth-children, leave faery changelings in their stead. A strange child from the first?she had golden hair, while all the Shawns were dark?she grows stranger year by year. Shy as a mouse, she yet seems to know what people are thinking of, makes her mother feel a little weird. But for Linda her home, the farm fields and woods are a simple heaven. Only slowly do personal loves come to people...
...inspired to go to President Hoover by anything but their desire to help their father. A bus line gave them free rides, paid hotel bills. Publicity followed naturally, encouraged by the White House because, though he is no baby-kissing politician, a conspicuous feature of President Hoover's legend is his fondness for "kiddies...
...Lubitsch has made popular in the U. S., with Sari Maritza, an actress who reached Hollywood before the picture reached Manhattan, in the leading role. Monte Carlo Madness, as anyone who has ever seen a cinema about Monte Carlo should guess, is no glum study of dementia praecox. The legend from which the plot was derived concerns the captain of a destroyer who squandered his payroll at the Casino gaming tables and threatened to shell the town if the money was not returned. When he got it back, he paid his crew and blew out his brains, but Monte Carlo...