Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hinks, ingenious, got many pieces of string, tied one end of each to a kernel of corn and the other end to a placard, left them in his flower garden. One day his astonished neighbors heard their chickens crowing lustily, found hanging from their beaks placards bearing the legend: "I Have Been in Reverend Hinks' Flower Garden...
Like almost every other artist of the Renaissance, Tintoretto painted the legend of the "exceeding delicate" Susanna, wife of Joakim, who was spied on by two amorous elders while taking an oil bath with "washing balls" in an orchard. The repulsed elders accused her of adultery. Attorney for the defense was the young prophet Daniel who proved perjury by examining the witnesses separately. Puritans who object to the depiction of Susanna in art cannot read about her in their Bibles. Omitted from the King James version, the story may be found in the Douay version (for Roman Catholics), Daniel XIII...
Though it is the fourth play to bombard the cinema, Wonder Boy manages to do it with new weapons. The story of the would-be dentist cajoled into brief stardom is Hollywood legend. So is Phil Mashkin's remark: "In two words, im-possible." Well acted, cleverly directed, Wonder Boy is a live & funny play...
...glue pots, for it is the ultimate disgrace since the advent of the horseless buggy. Ever since the horse lost the rest of its toos, it has trod on them to oblivion. Soon the use of the horse will become a fond memory, along with the mustacho cup; and legend will have Lady Godiva ride a tricycle through the storm of ticker tape that greeted her for her non-stop flightiness...
...wise. They serve as an excellent foil to the Shavian epistolary brilliance. And she brought out in the "inhuman" Shaw a side his readers and audiences have not often seen, a side of him which was uppermost when he wrote this last tribute to her memory: "She became a legend in her old age; but of that I have nothing to say; for we did not meet, and, except for a few broken letters, did not write; and she never was old to me. Let those who may complain that it was all on paper remember that only on paper...