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Word: strangers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lancaster, Ohio, Robert Schaefer, 8, and Jack Hauser. 7, organized a "G-man" squad with toy guns and disguises supplied by their parents, set up "headquarters" in a shack. Last week Agent Schaefer strolled into headquarters, encountered a stranger who, when questioned, gave him a dollar and told him to keep his mouth shut. Stealing out to the street, Agent Schaefer signaled a policeman, exclaimed: "I've just captured a criminal." In the shack the policeman arrested Owen Bickel, 17, a convict who had just escaped from two Federal officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

Love from a Stranger (Trafalgar). Adapted from a play by Frank Vosper (who last month disappeared in mid-ocean), this film investigates the prelude to a quiet murder in a British country house. The afternoon she advertises her flat for rent because she has just won first prize in a Paris lottery, Carol Howard (Ann Harding) receives a prospective tenant in the person of Gerald Lovell (Basil Rathbone), whose worldly manners soon so charm her that she marries him. After a gay honeymoon in Paris, they settle down together in a Kentish cottage, paid for with funds which Gerald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...STRANGER PRINCE-Margaret Irwin-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Long, brightly costumed historical romance detailing the career of Rupert the Devil, most feared Cavalier fighter in England's Civil Wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 8, 1937 | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...schools' wrestling teams. When the matches were over, and Philadelphia's Overbrook School had won, 22-to-5, the teams cheered each other and everyone went home. Because there was only one point of procedure at all out of the ordinary about the whole performance, a stranger could have watched from the gymnasium balcony without being aware that all contestants on both teams were totally blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Blind Wrestlers | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...Philadelphia office of C. D. Barney & Co., married Siegfried Roebling, rich grandson of Col. Roebling and vice president of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. in Trenton. Siegfried Roebling died a year ago, leaving his wife among other things a large stock interest in Trenton Trust Co. No stranger to authority, Madam President Roebling is the only woman representative on New Jersey's new State Unemployment Compensation Commission, finance chairman of Trenton's Maternal Health Center, director of the Mercer County Health League. No lover of publicity, she is careful to point out that there are about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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