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Irma: "The only reason I ask is 'cause I'm a total stranger in town. Not that I would mind meeting some nice young feller to go out with. Separate checks, of course...
Till the Dewey little stranger...
...there you have the type of rubber-jawed female who thinks she's going all-out for victory by slapping some unoffending stranger with the sneer: "Why aren't you in uniform?" when he's liable to be a discharged vet or someone like me, who volunteered and was rejected three times for hernia. Both remarks presuppose that men are free agents and aren't in combat only because they are craven, and that's more nonsense than your Miss Shepard ought to be allowed...
Mother Image. In Denver, Mrs. Martha Martin got a black eye when a stranger walked up and hit her. Said the stranger, apologetically: "I thought you were my mother...
...William Rothenstein once painted Einstein's portrait in Berlin. Throughout the sittings the great man conversed steadily with a thickspectacled stranger who sat in a corner looking "like an ancient tortoise." From time to time the stranger shook his head solemnly, and Einstein, crestfallen, would relapse into temporary silence. When Sir William took his final leave, Einstein explained apologetically: "He is my mathematician, who examines the problems I place before him and checks on their validity. You see, I am not myself a very good mathematician...