Word: legended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first program in a series entitled, "Adventures In Education," Phillips Brooks House will present over WHDH at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon the dramatized story of the Undergraduate Faculty. Written and acted by members of the House, the program aims to dispel the legend of dullness usually attached to educational broadcasts...
Underlying all these explanations, however, was the conviction that the Poles were magnificent fighters. If Sheridan's victorious armies at the end of the Civil War had driven into French-dominated Mexico, reached Mexico City, then been driven smack back to Denver, the legend of Mexican fighting strength might have been as firmly rooted in U. S. life as the legend of peppery Poles was ingrained in Russian thought. That was one of the reasons why, last week, Russians had a lot of trouble explaining the German advance and their own defeat...
...Information bureau for new students at Phillips Brooks House." So reads the legend...
...doing social service work, singing in the glee club--usually "just happen," and are the most fun that way. Until they get out of hand, they provide the balance necessary for a well-rounded education; and together, academics and social life make more than an idle aspiration of that legend above the Wigglesworth gate: "Enter to grow in wisdom...
...André Gide-like passions. But from then until he died, at 37, in a Marseille hospital, Arthur Rimbaud never wrote again. This amazing break with his genius, his lone-wolf prowlings through the lower depths of Europe, his gunrunning in Africa and Asia form a vague, provoking literary legend of which even the surer facts have been concealed, exaggerated, distorted, hushed up by shocked relatives or embroidered by starry-eyed admirers of his relations with famed Symbolist Poet Paul Verlaine...