Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cheshire House puts out Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow, with etchings by Bernhardt Wall ($18); Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher ($15) with a frightening frontispiece, other wood-engravings by Abner Epstein...
...technique to switch from lung to bellows air without interrupting the tone or affecting its quality. But hitherto players on the big horn have had to have the heart and lungs of athletes. Oboists and bassoonists need outside help even more because of their tiny, double-reed mouthpieces. The legend that all woodwind players eventually go mad is based on the fact that they must take in vast quantities of air, then let it out like a thread, very slowly and evenly...
...country's literature. An ambassador to Spain, a biographer of Mohamet, of Washington, an essayist of some eminence, a lawyer of none, the coiner of the phrase, "the almighty dollar," all these things he was. For delicacy and precision of style he has few superiors in America. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "The Alhambra" show a grace and beauty that is carefully wrought, while "A History Of New York" is full of deft humour and sly winks. But the Vagabond will not go deeper into the subject, art is long and time is fleeting. He must turn to other...
...Scutari hospital in Turkey. There she conquered official red tape and unspeakable conditions, won the approbation of Victoria and the nation. Back home she threatened to publish her Crimean findings unless the War Office bettered military hospitals. She won. Aged 90, her mind gone, she died a sainted legend...
...practicing play- ers during that time. Meanwhile, the ushers, equipped with two collection boxes apiece, will each take up contributions in five rows to the right and left of their asile. The boxes have been altered so that bills may be inserted without folding, and each box carries the legend "For the Unemployed" and "Please Pass This Box Along." Spectators will be requested to remain seated for the first five minutes of the intermission...