Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maude Royden gave up her Guildhouse pulpit for good last month, planning to devote all her time in future to preaching Peace. She is no stranger to the U. S. Upon her second arrival, in 1927, many a non-religious person went to hear her talk largely because bluenoses had cackled that she smokes an occasional cigaret. Last week ship newshawks did not bother to ask her about smoking. Said...
Savannah's tall, handsome Bishop O'Hara, a comparative stranger to Atlanta, professes to have known nothing of the antecedents of his palace until the sale was completed. Through similar ignorance his name has been confused lately with that of Gerald O'Hara. the hard-drinking Irish father of Heroine Scarlett O'Hara, in Novelist Margaret Mitchell's panoramic Atlanta novel. Gone With the Wind. Meticulous Author Mitchell laboriously checked reams of old records to make sure none of her names was real, but missed news accounts of Bishop O'Hara's appointment...
Early last spring, he received a mysterious letter from a stranger who demanded $2,500 and seven old shirts in return for his "unbeatable" system of betting on the races, threatened Turfman Vanderbilt with bad luck unless he complied by May 30. Turfman Vanderbilt ignored the letter. On May 30, Cherry Orchard fell at the start, breaking his jockey's collarbone. Airilame was defeated for the first time, and all three Vanderbilt entries in a third race inexplicably failed to live up to expectations. At Saratoga, an epidemic of coughing ruined the chances of the promising Vanderbilt string...
...compared to her dreamy husband, Captain Pierre Séverin, who mutters ominously that she must pay no attention to what his parents say against him, dreads her leaving, but seems so helpless in doing anything about it that he gives the impression of being a little feebleminded. Still stranger are their two children-round-faced, mindless, cheerful little Sophie; contemplative, mature, intuitive little Armand, who occasionally gives voice to gnomic philosophy, sees visions, hopes to be a monk. Enduring insults because of her dark skin, money troubles and sickness with the children, Renée gets this pair across...
Johnson was no stranger to the Metropolitan. For 13 years he had kept his eminence there as an important romantic tenor, created more roles than any other tenor alive. Romantic ladies still heave when they recall his dreamy Peter Ibbetson, his wistful Pelleas, his tender Romeo. Forthwith he settled down to the more excruciating task of playing Romeo to the box office, the Opera Board and the biggest congress of temperament known...