Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stranger to other shores is Dr. John Hathaway Spencer, 28, Grinnell '29, who has just taken up residence in Addis Ababa as new adviser on international affairs to the Ethiopian government. He was born in Rome, son of Edward B.T. Spencer, professor of Greek at Grinnell since 1916. Twice as his father's assistant he made European tours. After postgraduate work at Harvard, he received fellowships that enabled him to study a Paris and Germany...
Will your self-correcting service dispose of the following item which I clip from the Manchester Guardian Weekly for Feb. 7, 1936. It concerns, of course, the mysterious stranger in the funeral procession of the late King George...
...League High Commissioner for German Refugees, who will have at his disposal $16,000. The exodus of Jews from Germany was deplored by Geneva representatives of several states. "My country must serve notice," declared Rumanian Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu sharply, "that it is unable to receive one single stranger more within its territory...
Unlike Edward VII, who came to the throne at 59 with many long-cultivated acquaintances among British statesmen, Ed ward VIII is to the Prime Minister and executives of the British Empire almost a stranger - a singularly young-looking man of 41 whom they are accustomed to see pop in at a banquet, toy briefly with cold chicken washed down by Scotch & splash while others chomp the hot roast-beef of Old England, and then, after delivering a brief address...
...Realm and President of FIAT (Italian Automotive Works of Turin). Inconspicuous on each coach is the symbol RIC ("workable over all European railway lines"). This means three separate braking systems, two distinct electric lighting systems and alarms so ingeniously concealed and blended with the palace decor that a stranger would be quite unable to discover how to stop the palace-train in an emergency...