Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This spooky legend is only one of many detailed in a newly published English book called A Gazetteer of British Ghosts, which seems to document Author Peter Underwood's contention that "there are more ghosts seen, reported and accepted in the British Isles than anywhere else on earth...
...Scott Fitzgerald mused to his friend Gerald Murphy, who served as one of the models for Dick Diver: "It has magic. It has magic." It was indeed a seductive book, and a nimbus of equally powerful magic surrounded its author. Though Scott squandered his talent and Zelda went mad, legend still holds firmly that they were enchanted people somehow removed from the dailiness of life...
...that the legend springs less from the frantic Fitzgeralds than from Gerald and Sara Murphy, the subjects of this immaculate essay. The first hundred pages of Tender Is the Night evoke a world nearly as lyrical as Keats' vision of embalmed darkness and sunburnt mirth, and it was a world palpably created by the Murphys. For nearly a decade, artists of all sorts enjoyed a respite from their messy lives in the company of Gerald and Sara. Picasso, Stravinsky, Hemingway, Cole Porter-all were drawn to the couple before the Fitzgeralds arrived in France...
...concerned over the possibility that some day, someone may use a Fillmore doctorate fraudulently. Rather than fight in court, Bear has returned $400 worth of orders. He plans to sell his idea to an English company and already has a prospective diploma, suitable for framing, with the legend...
...goods store in St. Johns, Mich. He became a police reporter for the Peoria Journal, later joined G.M. and rose to head Cadillac's ad department. In 1935 he borrowed against his insurance and mortgaged his house to get $50,000 to start his own agency. Legend has it that Burnett worked from before dawn until after dark 364 days a year-and took Christmas morning off. He had put in several hours at his desk on the day he died...