Word: stranger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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looking ''engagingly like Henry of the cartoons" to Critic Claudia Cassidy of the Journal of Commerce. Sergei Prckofieff seated himself at a piano, neatly and precisely played with the orchestra his own Concerto No. 1. No stranger to Chicago was this 45-year-old Russian. There in 1921 both the caustic Concerto and Prokofieff's opera The Love for Three Oranges received the:r first performances. In Chicago last week on his seventh...
...Howdy Stranger (by Robert Sloane & Louis Pelletier Jr.; Theodore J. Hammerstein, Denis Du-For and Robert Goldstein, producers) presents Frank Parker, a radio singer with an amiable voice which seems to have accustomed itself to a microphone. The story deals with a cowboy songster who was born in Flatbush but poses as a genuine product of Wyoming. When his nativity is called in question, he is required to prove himself by riding a horse at a rodeo. Having a psychopathic fear of animals, he is able to pass this test only with the aid of a hypnotist. Since Singer Parker...
...days of the occupation lengthened, food supplies dwindled, in spite of foreign relief. "A stranger would have fancied himself among a population of ascetics. Everywhere there were symptoms of an appalling state of malnutrition: sties, boils and pimples, cases of jaundice and of scab, scales between the fingers, scurvy of the gums, dry abscesses on necks and behind ears." At first there were ways of getting enough food: if you were a woman, and young, or if you were rich enough to buy from smugglers. Author van der Meersch implies that the Belgians were comparatively well off, had plenty...
Confounded by the man's honesty, the accosted pair coughed up at once. They were then profusely thanked by the stranger who announced that he was forced to care for his wife and her mother, who was insane...
...swim the suit off you at fifty yards". The bet accepted and the date arranged, the natators mentioned to each other their best times for the distance, fifty four seconds by the Freshman and twenty three by his rival. "When you go down to the pool", said the stranger as he went off, "ask for Charlic Hutter...