Word: stranger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live in a strange age. Every age has been a strange age but ours is stranger than most...
Oldtimers in Boise like to tell of the Idaho farm boy who some years ago returned from a trip to their city, breathlessly told his father that he had seen the great Senator Borah. As proof, the lad said he had heard a number of Boise people addressing the stranger as "Senator." "Son," the farmer drawled, "those city slickers were fooling you. Now what in the world would a man like Senator Borah be doing in a place like Idaho...
These are harsh words, stranger, and as a member of this despised craft I write to enlighten Mr. Griffith as to what Minnesota editors are really like...
...difficulties, economic and temperamental, encountered by a devoted young couple who try to keep house on $35 a week. The bride (Barbara Stanwyck), in order to indulge her taste for $50 negligees, takes a job as a model. The husband (Gene Raymond) suffers from hurt pride. An alcoholic stranger (Robert Young) takes a hand in the proceedings at this point, almost breaks up the menage before the young pair's best friends (Ned Sparks and Helen Broderick) patch...
...have left home and family well behind, many a New Yorker recognized Fordham's new head as a native. Son of the late President Frank Stanislaus Gannon of Norfolk Southern R. R., slim, curly-headed Father Gannon has been a Jesuit for 23 of his 43 years. No stranger to Fordham, he taught there as a scholastic, directed student dramatics, organized a play shop. After his ordination he studied educational methods at the Sorbonne, Oxford, Cambridge, Perugia, Louvain. In 1930 the Jesuit Father General sent him to reopen St. Peter's College in Jersey City, N. J., closed...