Word: strangerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beholds a Chrysler roadster or a Stutz roadster or even a Hispano-Suiza (although this would be very improbable). The occupant, a woman--young, comely and solitary--inquires as to whether or not one would care to ride. What is the correct action to take? I am a stranger in your city...
Then the news came out and Tonopah went crazy. Had a stranger from the East dropped into town that day he would have glanced around to find where the movie cameras were hidden. Clouds of alkali dust whirled through the streets after a shouting, cursing, hurrying flock of humanity that suddenly began streaming from nowhere out into the desert after the Hortons and young Traynor. Stumbling mules wrenched along in makeshift harness. Automobiles of every make, rusty and knocking, shiny and squeaky, dodged and swerved along the crowded track. Derby hats, caps, fedoras and sombreros rolled by. Slick city...
Sirs : I believe I must have been the old gentleman" whom Mrs. Charles Phipps (TIME, Feb. 14) recently saw on the subway reading a copy of TIME. Perhaps, however, I may set her right in the mistaken impression that I turned and spoke to a stranger at my side about the excellence of an article in TIME. The gentleman, Charles Edgar Bowdoin, is my colleague of many years. That we should have been mistaken for strangers to each other is indeed curious. Perhaps it may interest your readers to know that I was perusing the article "Birthday Party" under WOMEN...
...daughter of an old sherif, and became the recognized chief of my section of the tribe. She was a beautiful little creature of about 15, with great brown eyes and a Rosenknospe mouth. She was my first Arab wife. . . . Arab girls are always in love with the first white stranger they...
...Harvard songs, a man of Cambridge and a host of other things of interest to the new student. Copies that are not sent to Freshmen are given to any new men in the University regardless of their department. But the Handbook cannot answer all the problems that confront the stranger in Cambridge for the first time, and to this end, a Bureau of Information is operated by undergraduate and graduate volunteers in the Parlors of the House during the week preceding and a few days after the opening of college. An average of about four hundred men a day make...