Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...isolated from the rest of the village: sometimes the pastor has to preach at his flock from across the brook. He is lonely, but his one neighbor, old Mrs. Lindinnock, always waves goodnight to him by pulling her windowshade up & down. When one fine night a young and beautiful stranger appears with old Mrs. Lindinnock at a sociable, and even calls on him at the manse, Pastor Yestreen's simple soul is nearly swept from its moorings. Miss Julie Logan is a flirtatious chit, but her heart is kind. Parson Yestreen comes as near as nothing to marrying...
...pages. But the booklet, like many others things of New England, is deceptive in its simplicity; it may be likened to a New Hampshire barn, prim, spick and span to the eye, but filled with a maze, a jungle, of mingled odds and ends, in which the stranger can find what he wants only by explorative rummaging...
...round athlete in college (University of Toronto). His golf form was perfected by professionals in Scotland. Johnny Goodman learned as a caddy. Bashful, reticent, Somerville played throughout the tournament with a masklike mien. Sports writers described him as dour. Loosening up afterward he explained that he thought a stranger in another land should be quiet, that if he talked he was afraid he might appear to be "talking some one out of a match...
...migraine), intestines (colitis). Two theories concerning the physiology of allergy have many followers among the specialists. One theory presumes that proteins in pollens, foods, etc. get into the blood and reach the body cells. When the cells first encounter the strange protein, they manufacture an enzyme to digest the stranger. Next time the protein appears the wary cells have an oversupply of enzymes and destroy too many protein molecules at once. The blood cannot carry off the waste products fast enough. Consequently some part suffers-nose, eyes, skin. The other theory presumes that the sufferer has an unidentified organ...
...Last week Mark Sullivan, seasoned convention commentator, reported that most Southern Democrats had a "morning after" feeling about their party's Repeal plank. Wrote he: "Their feeling about what they did about Prohibition is that of a man who finds himself wedded to a comparative stranger when all he meant was to go maying with the lady. The lady's marriage certificate is indisputable ... the equally certain fact is that not more than 500 of the [1,154] delegates meant to go that...