Word: stranger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hotel Mediterraneo in El Terreno. They were all feeling fine when the artist's wife, Mrs. Clinton Benedict Lockwood, heard sounds of a row between the doorman and a drunk. She went to pacify him while the doorman left to get help. He returned with a big stranger, dressed in an opera bouffe green and yellow uniform, carrying a rifle in a yellow leather sling. He was a member of Spain's famed Guardia Civil, crack police corps on whose goodwill largely depends the survival of the Spanish Republic. The Guardia Civil trains its picked men to have...
...these affairs rose to trouble Edwin Gould but the legal entanglements arising from them. In 1916, Younger Brother Frank and Younger Sister Anna sued the four trustees for mismanagement of their father's estate. For eleven years this suit, to which there were innumerable parties, children, strange grandchildren, stranger great grandchildren,* dragged on. Finally the law decided that Brother George had mismanaged the estate and a judgment for $50,000,000 was entered against the four trustees-settlement for which was made by compromise at $20,000,000. Meantime, however. Brother George had died, leaving an estate...
...STRANGER'S RETURN-Phil Stong-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Only Iowans can properly judge how truly Author Stong's 14th novel* mirrors Iowa life, but any hayseed can tell that Author Stong has seen some strongly improbable cinemas. Author Stong, however, has plentifully seasoned this fare with generous helpings of sardonic Iowa humor. Grandpa Storr, a cross between Falstaff and King Lear, talked like Mark Twain in unexpurgated mood. His language and actions were equally offensive to his household, consisting of: his nephew's wife (wicked), his stepdaughter (foolish), her husband (weak). They sat around like jackals waiting...
...York City, Cobbler Chris Listakis agreed to lend a stranger $60 to pay the tax on $900 worth of tobacco which he said the Government was withholding from him. The stranger told him to bring the money to an address on Centre Street which he described as ''the Government tax building." Listakis arrived with the money, gave it to the tobacconist, sat down against a carved lion while his friend went inside for the "release papers.'' He waited a half-hour, grew exasperated, went inside. "Could you tell me," he asked a uniformed officer, "where...
...tricked, by Matillda, (Magda Snyder) adopted daughter of the Mayor, who proves far too clever to be fooled long by Ferraro's artifice. She soon discovers their scheme and unfortunately the local police are not far behind, for that evening they arrest Ferraro, posing as his friend, the stranger, who is wanted in four countries...