Word: stranded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the publishing house of George Newnes Ltd., just off London's Strand, a hansom cab stopped and out stepped an elegant young man in top hat and frock coat. He was Arthur Conan Doyle, come to deliver the manuscript of a short story entitled A Scandal in Bohemia. Published in the six-month-old Strand magazine, in July 1891, the story's hero was a sleuth named Sherlock Holmes. He was an instant hit and so was the Strand...
...years, Conan Doyle wrote exclusively for the Strand, in a literary company that has seldom been equaled by any periodical. Shrewd, mustached Herbert Greenough Smith, the Strand's editor for four decades, gave his readers the best in Britain to provide "wholesome and harmless entertainment to hard-working people...