Word: strangerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign notables in straightened circumstances have made such expeditions before, and Americans have sometimes resented the sight of a stranger picking up nuggets of gold in our fields. But the bald from Oberammorgau is not coming entirely to take. It will refresh the jaded appetite of the land of mechanical efficiency with an exhibition of its own handiworks in wood and clay. And in order that these may not seem out of place in our marble halls, it will display its wares in a miniature setting of Oberammergau. A model of German village life, its daily tasks, and its festivals...
...Fascinating Stranger is a tramp who steals a lawnmower, gets a platinum ring in a " swap," sells it for $750, buys an $18 lawnmower, which he returns to the astonished householder, and lives one glorious week on his money, content that for once he has enjoyed life...
...FASCINATING STRANGER-Booth Tarkington-Doubleday...
...stranger, meekly plowing Close behind us, might be tempted-to our fall...
...neglected by undergraduate Harvard. The foreign student under present conditions has very little chance to get acclimated. Phillips Brooke House welcomes him, and welcomes warmly, but his receptions there are necessarily of a semi-official character. Brooks House cannot and does not try to take the place for the "stranger within the gates" of the social life enjoyed by other men in the class with family anchors to windward...