Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FARM AT PARANAO?Laurence Kirk ?Doubleday, Doran ($2). Quiet English story of a girl who migrated to Brazil to be married, the gradual development of her love for her stranger husband...
Fourteen years ago Clarence Augustus Chant, longtime professor of astrophysics at University of Toronto, gave a talk on a comet, in his usual simple lyrical style, to a group of amateur astronomers. When he had finished a stranger went up and shook his hand warmly...
...bride, still going through the first stages of marriage to a stranger, becomes despairingly aware of the irrepressible conflict between her mother and her husband, and her own divided loyalty...
...mile trip can be made for less money in one of Washington's taxis (mostly Chevrolets) than on one of Washington's street cars (fare 10?) whose routes are so confused by the city's intricate plan as to be practically unintelligible to a stranger. Rich visitors sometimes tip as much as the fare; less affluent visitors tip 10$; old Washingtonians, newshawks, Senators tip 5^; government clerks, rustics and Congressmen often tip nothing. However, if last week's farmers did not tip they paid well, for many a taxi driver took advantage of their ignorance...
...stranger to Manhattan was Negro Anderson. Once a self-educated San Francisco bellhop, he wrote an autobiographical play called Appearances, got it produced on Broadway in 1925. Called "clean" by kindly critics, it ran for three weeks, but did better in London. He began giving religio-psychological lectures, acquired a following at his "Tea Talks" at the Mayfair Hotel. He debated in Queen's Hall on "Christianity v. Spiritualism" with famed Journalist Hannen Swaffer. Last year Negro Anderson opened a temperance bar. His followers are planning to build a Temple dedicated to his message, which is simply...