Word: legended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every frankfurter in a package that bears the inspection legend of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry has been heated to a temperature of 137° F. (a temperature under which trichinae can no longer live...
...unfair to judge a man by a legend that has grown up around his life; yet in the case of George Washington the legend; however unfair, has its significance. Besides the misty notions of an heroic figure this legend drags with it to the present the picture of a great man and a wise man with a comparatively unexciting personality. Such is the unfortunate lot of a hero who does not happen to be an eccentric...
Great men are of two different kinds: those whose tremendous genius sweeps them through the world and those who rise to equal heights through the perfect fusion of more ordinary talents. Washington was the second kind, and his legend suffers in consequence; for we demand spectacular superlatives today before we call a man a giant. Yet Washington was a giant; the perfect harmony and balance of his character may go unheralded today, but it is as important now as it was one hundred and fifty years...
Lincoln Talks consists of some 800 anecdotes lifted from correspondence, newspapers, biographies, books of jokes, gossip, legend. Any Lincoln story is fun to read, and since Editor Hertz frankly tried to collect all the stories rather than all the true stories, this anthology makes particularly easy reading. Its Lincoln is lovable, immensely humorous, quick as an eagle, wise as an owl, gentle as a dove. For the rest, the book adds to the bulk if not to the substance of the honest truth about Honest...
Background. William Faulkner's great-grandfather entered northern Mississippi, so the legend has it, at the age of ten. Colonel William Falkner (the name is spelled both ways) ran away from his home at Middleton, Tenn., walked several hundred miles to Ripley, near Oxford, to stay with an uncle. He found the uncle in jail, charged with murder. He sat down on the courthouse steps and "swore he would some day build a railroad along the route he had walked...