Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Newfoundland's money troubles were suddenly solved. No province in distress ever had a stranger saviour. Miss Jeannette Lewis, a stocky lady with a large capable jaw and large capable feet, drove up to Montreal's swanky Ritz-Carlton hotel, registered, and let it be known that "myself and my associate" were ready to lend Newfoundland not only the $8,000,000 it asked for, but $109,000,000. Of this amount $10,000,000 was immediately available in cash...
...during last summer a fugitive from New York? I am positive that I saw him on July second and third at McCall, Idaho and again at Payette during the early part of October. I conversed with him at McCall without knowing who he was except that he was a stranger there...
...stranger training to be the mainstay of a republic than Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg. He was born in Posen (now part of Poland), on Oct. 2 1847 and brought up as a perfect little Junker. His father had been a soldier, all his ancestors were soldiers: no other career was considered for him. He never spoke to his father without snapping to attention. When he was three or four he had for a nurse an ancient harridan who had served as a canteen woman in the Napoleonic wars. When little Paul so far forgot himself...
Late one evening on Boston Common a group of loafers were heckling a sailor and his girl. A car drove up. A man jumped out. The sailor saluted. "Who the hell are you?" one of the loafers asked the stranger...
...dark hallway a light was flashed into his face. He saw the glint of a revolver. "Stick 'em up!" a hard voice ordered. Instead, Dr. Leiva, 51 and husky, fell upon the intruder, grappled for his throat. They wrestled about. The pistol fired wildly. "Pete! Pete!" called the stranger and up from the basement came "Pete" to join the tussle. Dr. Leiva was given a hard pate-pounding with a revolver butt. Blood blinded him. He dropped to the floor. The burglars escaped out a rear entrance...