Word: stranger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enlist in a Chinese war against Japan the aid of that same Soviet Government which enabled him to conquer China in the first place and which only last fortnight received the slap in Moscow's face of a Japanese-German accord against Communism (TIME, Dec. 7). No stranger things happen anywhere than among Chinese generals and there were a whole batch of them in Sian last week. They may or may not have said to themselves, "Our sorely exploited country must keep the goodwill of the good people of America and Europe and in those countries not impair...
...Isle of Fury" is a scenario writer's nightmare, containing every possible dramatic situation with the exception of the World War. Margaret Lindsay and Humphrey Bogart, he of the underworld voice, are the leading players in a series of adventures on a Pacific island. A mysterious though good-looking stranger is shipwrecked into a group of pearl divers and fugitives from justice and, or civilization. Among the other thrills are an underwater fight with an octopus, a pearl robbery, a shooting, and an unveiling of a G-man. Humphrey Bogart is convincingly hardboiled and confident as he drives the natives...
...hundred promising stories that he does not follow. Nothing holds the characters together except that they all live in Tuttle, so that whenever readers grow interested in one individual he fades into the crowd, leaving an impression as confusing as glimpses of a rush hour as seen by a stranger in town...
...Navy men who admire his prodigious physical endurance swear that they are not exaggerating when they tell how he once stayed on his bridge for six weeks during fleet maneuvers, relaxing only to take short catnaps. When he takes over his new office he will be no stranger to Washington. He maintains a residence there, has gone there whenever his duties would permit. In Washington he is not active socially but he likes to go for drink and chit-chat to the swank Army & Navy Club or Chevy Chase Country Club. Like Admiral Standley and many another naval officer...
...March 21, 1738, a disquieting influence disrupted the pleasant round of Mr. Bulkeley's dissatisfactions. His daughter Mary, who was apparently not very bright, wrote requesting "speedy consent of her being marryed" to a stranger named Mr. Fortunatus Wright, a brewer from Liverpool. Precisely what happened remains unclear, for Mr. Bulkeley scratched out a long passage in his diary, but "in plain English," states Editor Roberts, "Mr. Wright had seduced Mary Bulkeley." The young couple came to live with the squire, disappeared, returned, left their daughter for him to raise. But by 1746 Fortunatus Wright was famed throughout Great...