Word: strangerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...without a blush of shame, stand in the presence of their wives and daughters and explain to the world just why, in so far as physical appearance is concerned, the color line is so rapidly vanishing. Surely even Poynter himself must know that if the stranger in certain sections of the South relies solely on color he is decidedly unable in many instances to distinguish a white man from a Negro, notwithstanding the well-known fact that intermarriage between the races is strictly forbidden by Southern laws! May we ask Poynter who is to blame? Certainly not the despised...
...very amusing", chuckled Mr. Hazard, "They generally want something. One time a boy came in, with prominent New England ancestors and all that, and asked me point blank to introduce him to Miss Groody, the star in my show. Now, I couldn't do that. He was a perfect stranger, you know. But I told him that he might get some friends of hers, and suggested he try Captain Harrigan...
...each side of the hollow, with our pets singing like nightingales suffering from acute indigestion. Presently we heard a camel gurgle in response. It was not one of ours! By this time I was thinking furiously of certain quaint amusements indulged in by un-Frenchifled indigenes, in which the stranger within the gates is the principal actor. Suddenly there came a blast on a whistle and on all sides appeared camel men in white burnooses, all very pretty and business-like but what mainly caught my attention was the fact that the leader was wearing a kepl...
Harvard men gave thanks that the Lampoon's rebuke had come, since it had to come, from fond, dutiful brothers and not from a stranger without the gates; from the Harvard-manned if not Harvardized World rather than from, say, the New York Herald Tribune, whereof the dominant figure is, of course, Owner-Editor Ogden Mills Reid, Yale '04 (and a vigorous alumnus, especially in everything appertaining to water polo), one of whose right-handiest men is City Editor Robert Cresswell, famed Princetonian ('19) ; or from some underling of disaffected and disapproved Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Harvard...
...defiant answer to the Tower of London in the rival city across the sea. London Tower will say, "I'm a thousand years old;" Larkin Tower will say, "Look at me." Homesick Americans all over the world will extoll this newest of Gotham's wonders; and if some stranger should ask, "Who is this Larkin? Some great general of yours?" they will stop a moment and reply, "Why no, he's the fellow who built it, I suppose...