Word: strangerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese delegates, Dr. Wellington Koo and Dr. Alfred Sze, appeared with a superbly ornate fountain pen which disappeared soon after he loaned it to the other. Correspondents think they know what happened to the pen. Think they noticed that the two statesmen were temporarily estranged, stranger than fiction though the story...
...world in a depressed condition, with call money bringing 25% to 30%. Interested, able, he wrote an article showing the unsound condition of U. S. banking, likening the U. S. banking system to European banking during the Renaissance. Seeing no chance of publishing a critical essay written by a stranger, an alien, he put his paper in a desk-drawer, where it remained for four years. But in 1907, on the advice of Professor Seligman of Columbia University, he brought the article up to date, sent it to the New York Times, saw it in print. Soon the Panic...
...activity is no stranger to Goettingen. There were active times in the 18th century when the university was a centre of young stormy poets, and in the 19th when seven professors were expelled because they were too liberal...
...Also, because the Hudson's bank is the island's natural dock and shipping side. Wharves, warehouses and railroad tracks thrived there and stretched up the island before society or even social convenience made competitive demands. The commercial coagulation on Manhattan's western bank is no stranger than Cleveland's hideous, eastern waterfront, Cincinnati's and Pittsburgh's smoke-draggled riverbanks or Chicago's fuliginous south shore...
...United States and a university president. I like to think that a man could step from one job to the other as Roosevelt might have done, as Wilson did, and is Coolidge might do, conceivably. Hoover could do this but I am wondering about Smith. He might--stranger things have happened--become president of Harvard. If he should I can recognize some of those forty professors who would stay on their jobs but I recognize others who I think, would "fold their cents, like the Arabs, and silently steal away." Respectfully yours, Frederick Orin Bartlett...