Word: stranger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that very same year turned to journalism when he bought part-ownership in the local Western Mail. The turn of the Century found him in London, the proprietor of News Of The World. An insatiably curious man, with a reputation of being able to bewitch a stranger's life story from him in ten minutes, Publisher Riddell capitalized on the universal craving for information about crises in other people's lives. Few British dailies have Sunday editions, and in 1900 few dailies anywhere had learned the trick of scandalmongering as a circulation-builder. Published on Sunday only, News...
...Entrance Fee" was the pointed boast of the Daily News. It offered a difficult crossword puzzle, did not require readers to buy anything. Half-apologetically it confined the puzzle to small space, did little crowing about its $15,000 prizes. No stranger to contests before it became supreme in circulation in the U. S., the News seemed embarrassed by the necessity of brawling with the vulgar Mirror...
...book is arranged on the thin theme of a 24 hour period and attempts to follow representative types through their daily trials, labors and joys. The book is New York and thus will present a different face to every reader cold and mechanical to him who is a stranger, a vibrant, breathing, fascinating pageant to him who knows and loves this city. As a Christmas present it provides an easy answer to any problematic cases. It will be well-thumbed on glass-topped tables in penthouse apartments, in cozy, warm, overfurnished rooms in Middletown, in prim maidenly parlors on Beacon...
Things come to a head when Judge Priest, temporarily disbanded, helps defend a stranger on trial for the knifing of one Elisworth Brown, local dude and "jelly-bean" par excellence. The jury seems ready to admit that Master Brown richly deserves his portion, but nevertheless is prone to regard the unsociable defendant, who probably did not fight for the Stars and Bars, with a jaundiced eye. Judge Priest turns the tables in masterful fashion. While the strains of "Dixie" are wafted into the hushed courtroom, the parson, (Henry B. Walthall) comes forward as character witness on behalf of the defendant...
Every World Series produces oddities and heroes. Of all the oddities thrown into the eye of the U. S. public last week, none was stranger than the Deans. Ablest pitchers of the year, they enabled St. Louis to win the pennant by winning a total of 49 games. In St. Louis last summer, Jerome Dean was such a celebrity that when he was pitching the team's advertisements said: "Dizzy Dean in person." Brother Paul Dean three weeks ago pitched the National League's first no-hit game in five years. A third brother Elmer ("Goober") Dean sold peanuts...