Word: strangerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young man, one Zafioios Goussios, approached with apparent intent to serve a petition upon the chief executive. Policemen beamed paternally. The president was so democratic that anybody could approach him, thought they. Yes, indeed, all Athens was accustomed to seeing him walk the street, quite alone, and often a stranger would salute him and perhaps pass a few words about this and that...
Grimy pressmen will look up from their work in printing plants across the country in these next three months to see a neatly dressed stranger peering at them. If they can hear his comments above the thrash & roar of pressroom operation, they will be conscious of a precise English accent...
Show horses in the paddocks at Rye, N. Y., last week craned their necks as far as halter straps permitted. A stranger was coming among them. He was an elderly gentleman rigged squarishly in black clothes; he wore gloves and a blocky black hat. One horse, a jumper, he patted on the nose. The horse wiggled the hairs on its lip. This stranger loved horses. He was, in fact Bishop William Thomas Manning who had gone with one of his daughters (Frances) to the opening of the second yearly Cathedral Horse Show. Earnings of the show fortify the endowment...
...strange as and possibly stranger than the spectacle of modern football are those occasions known as "big pre-game evenings." These evenings, wondrous tings in themselves and honored as rituals, list for hours and hours; sometimes they last for days. Their commercial possibilities are quickly recognized by hostelries, restaurants, and theatres, and are exploited accordingly. And then buried deep in the tinsel; there is also the game itself. What, however,, is coming to be practically optional. The evenings loom larger...
Western women found a stranger in their midst. Polite to her, they did everything they could to undermine her position. They played on her every trick that strength and skill devise. Over the golf course of the Lake Geneva (Wis.) Country Club, the stranger matched them trick for trick. She was Mrs. Harry Pressler of Los Angeles, playing and winning her first tournament for the Western Women's Golf Championship...