Word: strangerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city councilmen a few of their number have elected they can begin to wonder just why the Democratic Committee so very nearly swept the polls. The fact that it was admitted to be "a contest of the politicians against the so-called reform organizations" makes the victory all the stranger. An answer to the rather vexing problem presented by the result, of the elections can be found in Mr. Frank R. Kent's articles in the World's Work on "The Great Game of Politics"; and in one word that answer is: "machine...
...call the great detective from a lift of deep research to help in solving all the particularly difficult and interesting murders. Nowadays Commissioner Enright of the New York Police Force calls in Rafael Schermann, famous Polish "psycho-graphologist" to help him solve the enigmatic Elwell case. Verily, truth is stranger than fiction! Thirty odd years ago, every one regarded Sherlock Holmes, the scientific detective, as a type to be found only in fiction, while today such a staid and sober journal as the "New York Times" prints with great solemnity Mr. Schermann's revelations as to the mysterious "Marjorie...
Saturday afternoon, December 8, Percy Grainger, famous pianist, but well-nigh a stranger to Boston, will play in Jordan Hall...
...Asquith's Government, he said that Dr. Butler was called in to inform the Cabinet upon the workings of the U. S. Senate. " There was no greater constitutional authority than Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, and we invited him to attend a Cabinet meeting. I think he is the first stranger to have ever attended a meeting of a British Cabinet. I never use the word foreigner when I am talking about America. He gave us a full account of the powers of your Senate, a very truthful account of the relations between the Senate and the House of Representatives...
...singing and cheering will ever equal that of some of its opponents particularly when the opponent in question has Dartmouth's reputation. Harvard lacks that collegiate spirit which delights in white-sweatered cheer leaders with all their paraphernalia and in song leaders gamboling along the side-lines; to the stranger Harvard is not "snappy" enough. But innate dislike for "snappiness" is no excuse for failure to have a regular song leader and for imposing the duties of this position, difficult in itself on the leader of the band. Nor does it excuse the raggedness of singing during the Dartmouth game...