Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington 700 speakeasies and 4,000 bootleggers operate unmolested. In Boston prostitution is rampant, with 15,000 persons engaged in purveying booze. In Kansas, after 50 years of Prohibition, there is not a town where I can not go as a stranger and get a very good drink in 15 minutes. No less than 6,000,000 gallons of hard liquor are consumed in Kansas annually. Detroit is in the grip of gangsters and crooked politicians. North Dakota consumes immeasurably more hard liquor than before Prohibition. There out of every four farmers one is making bootleg liquor for the other...
Applause such as is rarely heard burst out in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week. The occasion was a Boston Symphony concert. The heroes: Russian Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky and Russian Composer Sergei Prokofiev who appeared also as pianist. No stranger in U. S. music halls is Composer Prokofiev. He used to be railed at as the enfant terrible among moderns, a name belied by his pleasant. Pucklike presence. But since others have outdone him in the making of queer, dissonant patterns, the public has found him less disturbing, more to be accepted. Prokofiev too has changed in the past...
...Fitzgerald and Robert Riskin have occasionally blundered into trying to make it something more. Its progress is rendered exceedingly pleasant by Sylvia Sidney, who has long lashes and a figure, as the fraudulent heroine. Dorothy Sands is trig and smart as her young-seeming mother. When asked by a stranger if she knows her own daughter, she replies: "Certainly, we were girls together...
...seated behind a large flat-top desk a lithe, slender man with a well-shaped forehead, soft brownish hair, touched with grey at the sides, deep brown eyes of an almost feminine softness. Behind him, wide windows open on McPherson Square. A serene calm fills the office. A stranger would be surprised to learn that this man before him is 55, for he does not look over 40. There is a youthful slightness about him. a trimness of figure that makes it hard to believe that he could have been old enough to serve as an officer in the Spanish...
From Pandora's box of diseases, one, psittacosis, a stranger in the U. S., escaped last week. Two people were diagnosed dead from it, a score deathly sick-at Baltimore, Annapolis, New York, Providence, Pittsburgh, Toledo, Warren (Ohio).* All victims owned parrots newly imported from South America. The birds presumably transmitted the disease, which is peculiarly a parrot fever. The birds apparently carry the germs in their mucous membranes and in insects bred in the warmth of their underwings...