Word: stranger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Three Wise Men leave presents in the shoes of Spanish children, to whom stocking-stuffing Santa Claus is a stranger. This week citizens of Barcelona had barely begun to buy toys when fire totally destroyed on Christmas Day the seven buildings of El Siglo, "Spain's Largest Department Store" which was crammed with toys against the coming of the Three Wise...
During supper a man's face appeared at a screened porthole of the Wanderwell schooner Carma, onetime rumrunner bought at Government auction. The stranger asked: "Where is Captain Wanderwell...
Followed a shot. When the paying adventurers next saw him. Captain Wanderwell was slumped on the floor, a bullet from a .38 calibre pistol in his back, one hand over his face, the other clutching a bunch of keys. Just as no one had seen the stranger come aboard, no one saw him debark. Police investigation soon revealed that the Captain, a Pole interned at Atlanta during the War on suspicion of being a spy, had made a business of organizing bizarre junkets, soliciting junketeers through newspapers. He had been married three times. Only one bulkhead separated the dead...
...entry into the U. S., said he voted in the last election. But Suspect Guy denied killing Wanderwell. although he curiously paraphrased Mrs. Wanderwell's observation that many would have liked to kill him. An alibi supplied by several aviator friends, followed by his re-enactment of the stranger's visit to the Carma, convinced a coroner's jury that William Guy was not the man wanted. But both he and Lord Edward were detained for immigration authorities...
Translator Shaw may well have been reminded more than once of another war, when Arabs, counseled by a stranger as wily, energetic and heroic as Odysseus, fought against the Turks for an idea as beautiful to him as Helen; may well have remembered some of his banished names when he wrote Odysseus' words to the shade of Agamemnon: "What an army of us died for Helen...