Word: stranger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somebody entered the London hotel bedroom of Constance Thomas Emery after she had left for the evening with her husband Thomas Emery, Cincinnati chemicals heir. The stranger opened a locked drawer, took a jewel-case containing a $37,700 rope of 85 matched pearls, diamond brooches in the shapes of a terrier, a rose and a duck...
...friends, I'm no stranger here. . . . I've had a very wonderful twelve days' fishing. ... It has been a wonderful rest. I'm not going to attempt to tell you any fish stories. . . . The only fly in the ointment has been I've put on about ten pounds. ... I hope to come down here next winter. . . . Many thanks...
...Still a stranger to many otherwise well posted citizens of the world is the new Benito Mussolini, the Duce who has taken to digesting balance sheets, mastering trade statistics, engineering huge combinations of Italian industry and grappling intelligently with the octopus of hard times. Last week, without turning to foreign bankers, Il Duce floated a new $50,000,000 loan entirely in Italy, kept the lira still at par, surveyed the foreign bond market on which Italian issues remained strong and perhaps congratulated himself...
...stranger to the U.S. is Ambassador...
Late that evening a tired, trembling, haggard man appeared at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, asked for the physician in charge. Dr. Arthur Tiber answered. Announced the stranger thickly: "I am Lieutenant Coffey, of the Safety Bureau. The police have been looking for me all day. Please take my pistol from me. I am very nervous. I feel that I am going to have a breakdown...