Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast stone back on the top of a sugar-stick minaret. A trained seal on a barber's pole is balancing a whirling ball on the tip of his nose. Up the balustrade of the exterior staircase stalks a procession of pink elephants, rhinoceroses. The interior is even stranger, with carved witches and fairies, gnomes and children, a giant metal plum pudding, glass-eyed electric spiders that slither up and down on copper webs. To curdle young blood one room has a reproduction of the cauldron in which Jack's giant made pot-av-feu of his victims...
Large scale advertising (THAR'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS, STRANGER-MILLIONS WILL PLAY) serves both to attract buyers and players. The eloquent Tom Thumb booklet explains: "Passersby see the course, they see people putting-they stop-they lean on the fence surrounding the course-they watch the ball as it travels toward the cup-they scream-they laugh . . . they are fascinated-they want to play-they do play . . . they laugh-they scream-they groan-at last they are playing golf...
...Stranger still is the fact that the Great Templar, who was called by King Gustaf last week, leads only 28 deputies-or a bare 12% of the house. He has, however, a great & good friend: Per Albin Hansson, leader of the 90 Social Democrats. Although they are numerically much the largest party, they cannot form their own Cabinet because a whole pack of fractional factions would join with the Conservatives to oust a Socialist Government. In these peculiar circumstances last week Carl Gustaf Ekman seemed to be the best tail King Gustaf could have chosen to wag the Swedish...
...Bellwood, Pa., Donald W. Wertz, driving a loaded ice truck, hailed a stranger confidently: "I have 20 cases of beer on that truck. You can help yourself if you watch it while I take a nap." The stranger arrested sleepy Mr. Wertz, for he was E. D. James, local chief of police...
Greatest triumph of Mark Twain's Jim Smiley was the training of a broad jumping frog on which he won many a bet. Chief concern of the story is about a bet Smiley made with a stranger that his frog, "Dan'l Webster," could jump farther than any frog in the country. The frogs were lined up. The stranger's animal gave an ineffectual leap, went a few feet. Came Dan'l's turn to jump. He would not budge. Said Mark Twain...