Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporters cast a speculative eye last week at General Pera Zivkovitch. King Alexander's permanent Premier. Wilhelm of Hohenzollern used to refer to Belgrade as "that nest of assassins." No one has ever accused him openly, but it is a well-known Belgrade legend that 28 years ago Lieut. Pera Zivkovitch was the young officer who unlocked a back door in the palace of his Sovereigns, King Alexander Obrenovitch & Queen Draga, and let in the assassins who killed them in their sleep, thus allowing King Peter I, Alexander's father, to ascend the throne...
...general the book is factually correct, no matter what the deductions. In one detail, however, the author's cocky memory tricked him. He refers to "a legend that a Mr. Astor, a cattle merchant, fed his stock great quantities of water just before he drove them to market. . . . His 'watered stock' made him rich." The trickster was the late unctuous, sniveling Daniel Drew, the cattle-watering one of the simplest and earliest of his many business rogueries...
Lindberghs. The legend of Lindbergh infallibility has withstood minor shocks but never a shock like the one it endured last week. After crossing the Bering Sea without mishap and effecting a comparatively happy landing at Petropavlovsk, near the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Lindbergh troubles began. They continued for four days while headlines describing the oriental odyssey in occidental newspapers grew wide with astonishment...
...undesirable alien. But Author Raynolds, though he is at some pains to set a convincing forest-&-wilderness scene, is not concerned with being historically accurate. The Brothers talk sometimes like minor prophets and sometimes like sophomores; but you don't mind: it is all a kind of legend, with a good enough yarn to carry...
...Chillun (on which Playwright Marc Connelly based his Pulitzer Prize play, The Green Pastures), he failed to add to it with This Side of Jordan, an unpleasantly realistic, unpleasantly tragic novel of Negro life. Now he is back again on the side of the angels with a rambling, episodic legend of the big black buck John Henry, who is to the Cotton Belt what Paul Bunyan is to the North Woods...