Word: strangerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will equal the legend left behind by the greatest champion* before him. More than that, he knows that the confidence of his countrymen rests in his prowess, for he opposes a man from another nation. Now the fashion of fighting of these two champions differs like their races. The stranger, who comes of a people hot, delicate and windy, has schooled his natural haste into precision. His eye is cool; his strokes are like insults uttered in a careful voice. But the man of legend is a Jack of a different silk. Bleak in person and in countenance, sprung...
...vaults of the proposed $2,000,000 Archives Building in order to preserve for posterity historical films. Spokesman Coolidge expressed himself as favorably impressed with the idea, pointed out how educational it would be if this generation could observe President Lincoln delivering his Gettysburg address. The little man, no stranger to Presidents, was Movie Monarch Will H. Hays and as he walked the grounds of White Pine Camp, he seemed strangely pleased...
...mislead both physicians and the public by clever quotations (clever in the sense that they avoid conflict with the law) tending to make it appear that such and such a scientist supervises their products, or even controls them. I now declare that I am, and will always remain, a stranger to all 'commercial enterprises. I may go further in this direction and state that every time that I have treated a patient it has been done solely from a scientific motive." The workroom obscurity which Dr. d'Herelle maintains, Professor George Hathorn Smith of Yale would like. Before...
...Chemical Bank solicits not only your account but that of your ox, your ass and any stranger within thy gates-also your...
...Chaffinch, 64, professor of the Latin language and literature at Johns Hopkins University and for some weeks a widower, journeyed to Baltimore's business section to advertise for a housekeeper, and, adventurously, to dine in an oyster-bar. It was in the oyster-bar that a rubicund, ejaculatory stranger tendered him a card...