Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...along comes an Associated Press photo in the picture section of the Sunday Chicago Tribune, Sept. 6. with the legend that "One Charles Chaplin-not ours-is the present champion and has put up a purse of twenty pounds for the winner of this contest." I have accused you of erring, but it now occurs to me that the Chicago Tribune may have erred! May I suggest an explanation of these conflicting reports...
Swart, stocky Pierre Laval was born in the barren, backward region of Auvergne in the little village of Châteldon. His father was a grocer. Young Pierre used to drive a butcher's cart. It is the Laval legend that the village priest discovered him one day delivering salami and reading Ovid. He helped him with his studies. Pierre Laval became a schoolmaster, then a lawyer. He was admitted to the bar in Paris and in due time became Mayor of Aubervilliers. In May 1914 he became a Deputy and was listed almost immediately as a violent Socialist. When...
...will be Oscar Tschirky, 65, maître d'hôtel at the old Waldorf, with whom the tycoons and celebrities of many lands are proud to claim acquaintance. During the past year the new Waldorf's publicists have attempted to make even more fabulous the legend of "Oscar of the Waldorf," recalled from his farm for his new duties. He has dropped his last name for all purposes, has been sent touring cities of the interior, for much of the old hotel's trade came from the Middle and Far West.* At a reported salary...
Belize was founded by British pirates. The name Belize was unaccountably derived by Spaniards from the name of the Scottish Settler Wallis. Legend relates that the city was built in a swamp on a foundation of gin pots and mahogany chips. If this is so, it would have been better if the city's fathers had thrown in a few more pots and chips, for Belize is only a few inches above sealevel. Out of this circumstance came the second and far more horrible tragedy...
...this winter will have no trouble in dividing the subjects into two groups. First group exemplifies a tortured Norse brooding. Prime example is the central figure from the Folkunga Fountain at Linkoping, commemorating the legendary Swedish hero Folke Filbyter, progenitor of the royal Swedish house of Folkungarna. According to legend. Folke was a harsh man who incurred the wrath of the Church. Monks spirited his grand son away. For years Folke roamed the countryside on horseback, looking for the boy. After 24 years, as he was dying, he found his grandson well and happy, serving as the King...