Word: strangerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wheeler, to this total stranger, in the Waldorf lobby, offered half of his fee, disclosed to this total stranger the facts of an agreement, so Hayes says, that was criminal in nature if it was entered into...
Dazed, he looks for an old landmark. What? No "Pill Box"? Only a traffic policeman marks the spot. With filmed eye and tottering limb, he makes for him. But rashly, for the released traffic leaps forth. Down goes the stranger. The officer's arms gyrate madly. A snort of disgust--"Top slow...
...Little Stranger is Another Satire...
...surprise and delight that he was going to have another book. . . . He prayed with all his heart that it might be a novel, for he had never had a novel although he had wanted one all his life. But early in February, 1923, Mr. Stewart discovered that the 'little stranger' was to be another satire, and although it was a bit of a blow at first, after a few days he got over his disappointment at not having a novel...
...were serpentining round the gaping cup, that her mashie shots were bounding too hard across the greens. The gallery marveled. Such golf would never win for her against a sturdy opponent. They looked curiously at the little-famed Miss Hadfield. But as for her ball, it looped in even stranger parabolas from her putter, sprang from her cleek in bounds even more rash. Miss Collett won, "3 and 2." Next day she defeated Miss Cummings...