Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas pictures appeared only in an oil-and-tempera panel of a prancing, black Percheron stallion painted at the Wisconsin stock show a year ago. A landscape View of Madison painted last spring had an unaccustomed air of old-fashioned dewiness. A still life, Spring Flowers, had an even stranger touch of Renoir. For action subjects the artist had apparently confined himself to football games in Wisconsin's Camp Randall stadium producing a series of sketches and one big canvas, Goal Line Play, which looked like a monument to a lost opportunity...
Though she boasts a repertory of 67 operatic roles, it is her Elektra that has made Rose Pauly famous in Central European opera houses. Before a recent appearance at the Venice Opera, a dinner was given in her honor by Mussolini. During the festivities she remarked to a nearby stranger, "I think that we at least ought to see Mussolini here. I'm so disappointed because he won't be present when I'm singing ." "I'm sorry too," said the stranger, "but I have to go to Rome for " then added, "you must be almost...
...execration from an Englishwoman returning to exile in Colombia. Before long, tropical colors had the same psychopathic effect on Farson as well. The South American neuroses of other foreigners were as bad or worse. The rare visitor able to cope with South American life seemed to Farson an even stranger specimen. In the Canal Zone he was dejected by the surfeit of night life, in other Latin-American cities by the lack of it. The natives were too rich or too poor. He alternately froze, sweat unmercifully, gasped for breath in the 12,000-ft. altitudes of the Andes...
...which 60% of all local Communist officials in Russia were either discharged or shifted to new posts (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante), is playing into the hands of the Church. In many districts the Communist boss who has just been shifted into a region where he is a total stranger has been fairly stumped to know whom the Party should favor as a candidate. Izvestia recently described district Communist organizers "perusing for two hours the list of 37 presidents of village Soviets of their district but absolutely unable to appraise the political standing of these presidents- they are all unknown...
...Stranger yet is the situation of Dartmouth as the underdogs, when for three years the Big Green has been able to turn back Harvard in a convincing manner...