Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four members of his regular congregation attended. Even the organist, a cautious lady, stayed away. The white-haired rector stalked down the aisle crying dramatically, "I must have someone to help me!" A grey-haired male stranger volunteered. For evensong rubberneck wagons, taxis, excursion trains brought gaping crowds from miles around. The church was packed. Special police had to handle the crowds. Dr. Davidson preached on the Resurrection, as befitted the season, but added a few personal remarks: "If improper thought comes to us, there is no harm in that whatsoever, because that is Temptation, but we must not encourage...
From one Mexican village to another this winter a white man traveled, asking for and intently listening to music. A swart Mexican accompanied him, explained to Aztecs and Tarascans that it was their own native music the stranger wanted to hear, not the imported hodge-podge played in Mexican cities. The stranger was interested in the rude, primitive sounds made by the chirimia (clay pipe), the marimba made of gourds, the teponaztle, which is the Mexican Indians' drum, the noisy basis for all their music. Indians took to calling the white man Chokopul which means "one of wandering wits...
After Uncle Wes dies of a knife-wound, complicated by Big Pa's conjuring, Cricket grows more & more restless. Though she loves Blue, she will not listen to his marriage proposals: she wants to go off to the big city, where Man Jay had gone before. When a rich stranger appears in the neighborhood and steals the bootleg trade away from Uncle Kelly, Cricket takes up with him. On the day set for their wedding the groom does not appear. Uncle Kelly has settled him. But the bride, all dressed for a wedding, must have a groom. Blue snatches...
Most local Californians reciprocate his attitude. The most notable exception was California's poet, the late George Sterling, who doffed his poetical crown to Poet Jeffers, wrote a hero-worshipping study of him. In spite of this he remains to most Californians more of a cloudy stranger gone native than a sunny native...
...never found one large-hearted patron on whom he could depend. He married an amiable, unpractical creature, pregnant or convalescent from childbirth for six years out of their union of nine. He went deeper & deeper in debt. Figaro earned him $200, Don Giovanni about $225. A grey-clad stranger knocked at his door one day, asked him to narrow his price for writing a Requiem March. The stranger turned out to be steward to a count who wanted to be known as a composer but Mozart, worn out at 35, took him to be Death. He died before he could...