Word: stranger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Howe's letter did not reach Director Fechner until next day, but "before sundown" the contract, under which 110,000 $1.40 Be Vier kits have already been delivered, was signed and in his pocket. Up to "that time, he said, Mr. Fechner was a perfect stranger...
...followed the [Biblical] in-junction," interposed Senator Logan of Kentucky. "He was a stranger and you took...
...tenor Henrico Ferraro dodges his ranting manageress, Non-Stop Nora, to strike an acquaintanceship with a garrulous and none too scrupulous stranger. When the stranger buys wine with his money, Ferraro does not object. When the stranger takes the liberty of inviting himself into the same hotel room, Ferraro remains tolerant. But when the stranger is mistaken for the tenor, Ferraro is delighted...
...Sanger. "Naw!" says Red. "He died hatin' everybody like a man with any guts should." He hesitates, just before being taken away. "He did have a good word to say for you," hard-boiled Red finally admits. Albert Bein, author of this vital, brilliantly cast play, is no stranger to reform schools. He spent five years in one, lost a leg trying to escape. Poems which he wrote while imprisoned were praised by Clarence Darrow, Zona Gale. Russian-born, he is now 29. In 1930 he wrote a book called Love In Chicago under the pseudonym of Charles Walt...
...resounding voice of Tenor Jan Kiepura. Its story is a composite of almost all Alpine operettas. An opera singer, Enrico Ferraro (Kiepura) escapes his domineering female manager, goes off holidaying in a Swiss village. There, just as his identity is about to be revealed, he gets an obliging stranger whom he has met on the train to pose as Ferraro; then he pretends to be the impostor's secretary. This leads to the simpler forms of mountain comedy when the stranger, who turns out to be an eccentric crook, is called upon for a song; also when the stranger...