Word: strangerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mysterious Stranger. During the naval proceedings last week, a strange man, carrying a small brown bag, slipped past the doorkeeper with an air so secretive that the suspicions of an alert Swiss detective were at once aroused. The stranger, grey-haired, straggly mustached, clad in an undistinguished business suit, pattered the length of several corridors, set his bag down, mopped his face. The Swiss detective, with catlike caution, flattened himself against the wall, watched the stranger closely for signs that his bag contained a bomb. Just then a member of the U. S. delegation appeared, shook warmly the hand...
...sweet sidereal stranger, passing...
MYSTERIES-Knut Hamsun- Knopf ($2.50). "In the middle of the summer of 1891 a little Norwegian coast town was the scene of a series of most unusual events. A Stranger turned up in the town, a certain Nagel, a noteworthy and original charlatan, who did a heap of odd things and vanished again as suddenly as he had come...
...Manhattan, one Sandro Rodreguez accepted a drink from the hip-flask of one Ralph Martinez, a total stranger. Raising the glass to his lips, Mr. Rodreguez smelled, frowned, excused himself, returned after several minutes with a policeman, who arrested Mr. Martinez for burglary. Mr. Martinez pleaded guilty. He had stolen, not only the wine which Mr. Rodreguez had recognized instantly as his own, but several of Mr. Rodreguez's rings and bracelets, also his watch...
...were subtly changed-Tessa into a jealous fury; Boris and Kim into love-sick school-puppies. The Legs noticed, and shut Rennie in the goat house, thrashing Kim when he nearly gnawed in to her with his sharp terrier teeth. Then the Legs-in-Authority brought the romantic black stranger up from San Remo on a leash and put him-oh, outrage!-into the goat house...