Word: strangerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Winters, Tex. When he had been in Hugo, Tex., for a while, he played in a professional game for which he was paid $2.50. Then he played more for Hugo and was paid a little more and then he moved on to a town called Dennison. One afternoon a stranger in a tan felt hat watched him from the little stand beside the bleached, hot field. The stranger was Con- nery, scout for the St. Louis Cardinals; oilers had told Connery that there was a good player in Dennison. Connery paid $500 for Hornsby's release and handed...
...stranger or a heathen wandered into Convention Hall, he might well have been confused as well as humbled by the scene which confronted him. Who, he might have asked, among all these dignitaries, is most worthy to be watched? What delegate is notable enough to justify rigorous attention? There would, of course, have been no way to decide this for the stranger. But since it would obviously be impossible for him to follow every move of the Conference, even if he desired to do so, one man he could select who would probably be near the centre of activity...
...that while he was making this dusty place for a flyer to stay in, a tall man had come quietly to his side and watched him at his work. The Negro asked his name but the man, as mysterious as a spirit, said merely "I was his friend." The stranger borrowed the Negro's spade and stood with his feet planted in the hole, lifting out the earth. For a moment he leaned back on his shovel; "So this is the end. . . ." he said. Then he stepped out of the grave and went away. In the silence, under...
...decidedly, truth is stranger than fiction. So much stranger in fact that were it not for the author's reputation and his frequent reference to police records and newspaper files we should set down his tales not as truth, but fiction...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew to Albany, along with other famed aviators, to speak in favor of the New York program. He was heard with wild enthusiasm by a joint session of the New York Legislature, which had not gathered to hear a stranger from without since Prince Henry of Prussia went to Albany...