Word: stranger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entering Harvard to procure is proper advice. Although there are deans, advisers, and proctors at every turn, and professors in every class room that fairly exude knowledge of their own particular field, there are few who possess a sufficiently all-round knowledge to be able to tell a stranger what courses it is wise to take, and what courses...
...obedience to fashion and uniformity as we do hats and dresses. Are egos being worn long this year? Is the high fashion a gentle melancholy, a sad haunting quality? Or perhaps for winter garb a super-optimism, a robust go-ahead character with nothing to learn but humility." A stranger walked into the shop of a Salem, Mass, bootblack, said he was a schoolboy friend, asked for a shine. When he offered to pay the bootblack remarked: "Times are hard and friends are scarce. We'll forget the dime." Said the customer: "Oh, I can afford it all right...
...Stranger's Return (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Author Phil Stong's novels have supplied the cinema with something it has needed for a long time-true-to-life stories about U. S. farmers. Fox made his first published book State Fair into one of the best pictures of last winter. The Stranger's Return, which was completed in Hollywood by the time the book was published (TIME, July 10), is an even more appealing pastoral, distinguished by Author Stong's incisive characterizations and by King Vidor's direction which is so authoritative that Lionel Barrymore acts...
Grandpa Storr is the central figure of The Stranger's Return. A hard-fibred, eloquent curmudgeon of nearly 90, he entertains himself by abusing the pasty-faced riff-raff of his family-a nephew's widow, a stepdaughter, her husband-who are his pensioners at Storrhaven while they wait for him to die. When Louise (Miriam Hopkins), the daughter of Grandpa Storr's oldest son, arrives at Storrhaven, the old man gets a new interest in life-showing her that she belongs, not in New York where she has been married and divorced, but on the ancestral...
...contemptuously into the henyard. Louise falls in love with Guy at a village dance while Simon the hired man (Stuart Erwin) is getting drunk on corn whiskey. For a genre incident-of the kind which have made Stong contributions unique in the current cinema-the best shot in The Stranger's Return is probably the harvesting dinner, with extra leaves in the Storr table, Grandpa Storr grunting at the head of the board and a great company of farmers slobbering down their food-"not," says - Grandpa, "like pigs-like threshers...