Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stranger to the U. S. stage, Edna Best was last seen in this country in Melo. Actor Marshall, her husband, was the wise and witty scientist, last year, in Philip Barry's Tomorrow & Tomorrow. Great Britain need not envy the U. S. its Lunts so long as the ingratiating Marshalls carry on. Third of There's Always Juliet's cast of four is May Whitty, a Dame of the British Empire. Impersonating a sort of female super-butler, she has found an infinite and amazing number of ways of saying her chief line which is "Yes, Miss...
...Gastonburg, Ala. one R. J. Goode owned a herd of goats. If one of Mr. Goode's goats was suddenly confronted by a stranger its legs would freeze stiff, it would topple, lie still on the ground. Once Mr. Goode walked up to the herd, clapped his hands. The entire herd toppled. Neighbors for miles around discussed Mr. Goode's goats, who were so timid that they fainted at the slightest excuse...
...Madison County, Tom Collins and Bernice Griffin went hunting. They fell to arguing about whether or not one should say "howdy" to a stranger. Sportsman Griffin won the argument by killing Sportsman Collins...
Bruno Walter was no stranger to the audience which cordially applauded his entrance last week and cheered him when the concert ended. In 1923 Walter came to Manhattan to conduct the New York Symphony and it became known then that his real name was Schlesinger, that he had taken the more euphonious name Walter after the hero of Die Meistersinger, an opera he conducted brilliantly when he was very young. After the long administration of Walter Damrosch, the New York Symphony was in a hopelessly lethargic state. Conscious of failure, he returned to Europe to increase his honor...
Thelma got to be fere (friendly) with the stranger, with his white hands and winning ways: almost consented to marry him. But she could not understand why he employed Lum Morgan. Chad, once deputy sheriff, had jailed Lum's son. Lum had recently shot at Chad, mistaking him for a rabbit. Clayton found Lum useful around the mines, continued to employ him. Lum thought that this meant that Clayton wanted him to take another shot at Chad, mistake him for a barn door...