Word: stranger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Still stranger documentation on this tribe is found in Gari-Gari, the work of a celebrated Austrian anthropologist. Visiting eleven peoples in the Anglo-Sudan, he brought back 1,400 photographs and 30,000 ft. of cinema film. Sixteen of the 116 remarkable pictures listed in the index of Gari-Gari have been omitted from the U. S. edition of the book, for reasons that observers of the others can readily comprehend. Anthropologist Bernatzik observed natives who cut terrible ornamental scars on their bodies, who wrestled in costumes that gave their matches the appearance of cockfights, native beauties who made...
...French Garde Républicaine, and presented to cordial President Albert Lebrun his credentials as U. S. Ambassador. For twelve years popular and Bohemian "Bill" Bullitt has maintained a studio in Paris, and he put his heart into telling M. Lebrun: "I come to France not as a stranger but as one who for many years has known the magnificent achieve ments of French civilization...
...University so far has steadfastly refused to grant. This year it is possible only because last year's Red Book was more of a financial success than its predecessors. No longer will the classmate viewed skeptically over the Union's best Riverside Farm Eggs be only a familiar-looking stranger, and no longer will proctors, officials and coaches labor over University Hall files to organize their fall, winter, and spring activities. It is only to be regretted that the previous classes have not had the benefit of such a plan...
...Much of the strangeness of the book had its source in the author's ability to make the Continent of Asia seem somewhat like a small town, filled with the same gossipy characters turning up on every corner, with the same old feuds and underground activities that a stranger might be aware of, get involved in, but could not understand...
...summer evening, when she was in her early teens, a stranger appeared at the gate of the family home in Knightstown, Ind. and asked if it were the home of John Lehmanowsky. On being informed that it was, he came through the gate, and was met by her father, who had hurried from his chair on the porch at the sound of the stranger's voice. The two embraced and cried, talking in French and giving every evidence of being friends long parted who had had no hope of meeting again. They talked most of the night...