Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leave a birch switch for bad as they go from house to house. Especially naughty moppets are supposed to be terrified into good behavior when grimacing Black Peter threatens: "Unless you mend your ways, I'll carry you off in my bag to Spain!" According to one legend, Blackamoor Peter came from one of the ancient lands of the Moors...
...Gone With the Wind was a U. S. Legend. In fact, it was two of them. Legend No. i was the only great U. S. war epic-the War between the States-told from the Southern side. Legend No. 2 was the heroic and unhappy love story of two people who were strong, brutal, brash, realistic, American enough to survive Legend No. i. Like all good legends, these were told without subtlety, subjective shadings, probings or questionings, its characters were instantly recognizable types. Scarlett's "I won't think of it now, I'll think...
Better than almost anybody who worked with him, Producer David Selznick sensed that the first rule in retelling a legend is exactly the same as retelling a fairy tale to children-no essential part of the story must ever be changed. In the film, none...
...title: in Chinese, Pai jih p'o ching chih yuan;* in Tin Pan Alleyese, When I Get Out, Beloved. Inmate Yun, 27, based his song on a 2,000-year-old Cantonese legend of a separated bride & groom, joined again in old age with the aid of matching halves of a little round mirror each had treasured through the years...
Harvard's choleric surgeon, Hugh Cabot (the Boston tribe which according to legend "speaks only to God"), is vice chair man of the Committee of Physicians, a group of 1,000 critical American Medical Association members. For three years Dr. Cabot has stamped and stormed for group medical service. Last year a group of prominent Boston laymen, headed by Law yer Francis Henry Russell, dumped a plan for cheap, wholesale medical care on Dr. Cabot's doorstep. Dr. Cabot read and ap proved the plan, discussed it with four sympathetic colleagues-among them Dr. Channing Frothingham, former president...