Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps to change the subject, my grandmother pointed at the wall next to the desk, on which she had taped up dozens of certificates bearing the legend: "A contribution in your name has been made to . . ." "Would you look at all that," she said...
Local magnate Max Wasserman has recently purchased her estate, but Cambridge residents have been slow to forget the legend of "the witch of Harvard Square." People don't forget immigrant assistant milliners who earn over $4 million in 40 years...
...years ago this morning, Frank Champi was a very normal red-blooded American boy form Everett, much like ourselves. Now he's legend, another Frank Merriweather, another Cap'n Crunch. What Linda Lee Danvers-Supergirl-did for Midvale, Frank has done for Everett, and for Harvard. Frank is gone now, but his spirit lingers on ("Spirit of America," Beach Boys, 1963), and when John Yovicsin sends his boys out on the field today it'll be with the instructions "Win this one for Frank...
However, a species classification yesterday by experts ruined the possibility of a lovable "sea monster" legend being passed down to future generations and at the same time deflated the value of thousands of "Cecil blubber" souvenirs taken from the creature Sunday at its dry-dock home on a Scituate beach...
...most famous Brooks characterization, the 2000 Year Old Man, works over the largest territory, smashing the idols of all time. At one point he credits the Robin Hood legend to a press agent and explains that the altruistic robber actually "stole from everybody and kept everything." He reminds us of Shakespeare's flop play, "Queen Alexandra and Murray," which "closed in Egypt...