Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extent of displaying and offering for sale the cards ... the defendant is engaged in mercantile business. . . . Does a shopkeeper . . . owe no duty to a customer to sell honest goods because, forsooth-Trinity argues-'a stranger, a licensee, of his own free will' comes into the open store ... to buy a can of baked beans labeled . . . Genuine Boston Baked Beans, pays 10? for it, takes it home, and, on opening, finds it to be spoiled stewed prunes-has he no right to recover the price paid under a false label...
...close friend and respected mentor, Dr. John F. "Jafsie" Condon. Passage follows: "Aftermath was the biggest party since 1929, the most elaborate display of individual and public drunkenness since 1920. In Jack Dempsey's saloon, grizzled old J. F. ("Jafsie") Condon told his life history to a stranger from Wisconsin. . . ." The article and passage quoted continues to enumerate other incidents in citation of "individual and public drunkenness...
...Condon, famed for his part in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, neither drinks, smokes nor swears. He needed no stimulation to wear a U. S. flag on his coat lapel, explain to the Wisconsin stranger that he felt deeply sorry for Convict Bruno Hauptmann...
...elephant paraded in Manhattan's Wall Street last week. All over the city billboards broke out in a rash of promises that New Yorkers would soon see something BIGGER THAN A SHOW-BETTER THAN A CIRCUS. The Hippodrome was boarded up behind signs which warned: SHHH! To a stranger, all this might have seemed strange indeed. But to Broadway its meaning was perfectly simple. Billy Rose was about to open his JUMBO...
Almost unknown in the U. S., handsome young Artist Caviedes is no stranger in Madrid either to artists or socialites. A well-off son of a distinguished sculptor, he and his handsome young wife are frequently seen golfing at the country club, lunching at the Ritz. Ever since he was old enough to crawl, Hipolito de Caviedes has scribbled, scrawled, finally painted in his father's studio. Like most other young artists, he shares the current enthusiasm for murals, has done much to decorate his native city since the fall of the monarchy. Equipped with Caviedes murals...