Word: alien
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dispatches from the alien world of English university life are not often of a nature to cause the student at Harvard to bow his head and give thanks for present blessings. Of this kind, however, is the information from Oxford that rules have been put into effect by the University restricting the under-graduate use of automobiles. No freshman is permitted to own a car; an upper classman must get a special license for ownership from the disciplinary authorities of the university. Trips to the English Wellesley are precluded by another regulation which restricts the rental...
...characteristic evolution of U. S. culture. Beginning 150 years ago with the pioneers who "could face facts," "grapple with realities" and subdue savages; touching briefly on George Washington, the University of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh's present bank clearances (9.198 billions) ; recounting with admiration the rise of an alien child, Andrew Carnegie, and his beneficent works; hailing the Mellon brothers, the "distinctly American effort" of the painting exhibition and Andrew Carnegie once more, President Coolidge finished on a note especially pitched for Pittsburgh. "There are still some," he said, "who sit apart, who do not see,, who cannot understand...
...cannot be a halfway citizen under that flag. . . . We have a great deal to give when we confer citizenship upon an alien. It is like admitting a new stockholder, and he or she should be willing to do what the other stockholders have obligated themselves to do. We must forget our various views on pacifism when war comes...
...juggernaut. But in the Ghetto read the name as "Little Augie," a pioneer in a now overcrowded profession, who added finesse to the art of unmodified murder. He was the first to shudder at the crudeness of a Jimmie Valentine's jimmy and to shrug fastidious shoulders at the alien importations of Dr. Fu Manchu. One of the most minor instances of his genius was the introduction of the shoulder-sling to the East Side, supplanting the unlovely bulge to the back trousers pocket that had been decreed by police custom. He it was who did away with...
...Fraser and the match 3 and 2. But something happened. Mrs. Fraser fiddled away her next match to a little-known Kansas City wife, Miriam Burns Horn. Mrs. Horn, once western champion, won 1 up. Meanwhile Maureen Orcutt, whose name (someone observed) sounds like a hair tonic, destroyed the alien Miss Mackenzie-2 and 1 Miss Orcutt is metropolitan champion and the huge gallery did not regard her nervousness, revealed by constantly snapping fingers, fatal to the finals. They pointed to jets of cigaret smoke issuing from the obviously nervous nose of Mrs. Horn. This...