Word: stranger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sterilization as a weapon against political dissenters is a serious threat, if not an actual fact, at present in Germany. For this reason we believe Mr. Miller's letter, though an excellent job, wad ill-advised in choosing sterilization as the reductie ad absurdum of reactionary terrorism. Truth is stranger than fletion, isn't it, Mr. Miller Of course, Mr. Miller is aware that adveeating sterilization of political prisoners is simply an indication of the sense of impotence of its advocates...
...Adams House yesterday noon. The club is composed of young graduate students in American history and after dinner they adjourned to the upper common room to revel in some choice tid-bits of knowledge to top off the season. On their way upstairs one of the members, supposedly a stranger to the architectural beauties of Adams House paused before the Tudor door that leads into the Roman court and smiled as he looked at the Moorish dome over the stair well. "It looks like a boudoir," he said...
...Montana ranch, Myrna Loy was "discovered'' as an obscure sculptress by Rudolph Valentino. Given the Madonna role in Ben Hur, she was told three hours later she was "not the type." For years she played an endless monotony of roles portraying seductive sinuosity. A stranger to Broadway, she has never been east of the Mississippi...
...East St. Louis, Ill. Harry Radel was watching a motion picture when a stranger rose up near him, struck him on the head with a club. Said the stranger to the police: "That fellow looked like Hoover...
...those who have seen Lionel Barrymore's death throes in "Stranger's Return" and "Dinner at Eight," "This Side of Heaven" will be just another picture for Barrymore...