Word: alien
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people, indulging no consciousness of superiority, incapable of arrogance, separated from them neither by experience nor by pride nor by eccentricity. He was brother to all whose strivings in countless communities, whose eagerness, adaptability, energy, venturesomeness and common sense give the stamp of the American character. Nothing human was alien to him, and he had 'the divine gift of sympathy.' He wrought mightily for the prosperity of the Nation and for the peace of the world, but he clothed the exercise of power with the beautiful garment of gentleness. If American life with all its possibilities of conflict...
...McLean was the man who ex-Secretary Fall had said lent him $100,000. McLean, through his attorney, A. Mitchell Palmer (first Alien Property Custodian and later Attorney General under Mr. Wilson), had confirmed this statement. Later, Senator Walsh of Montana had taken testimony from Mr. McLean at Palm Beach, in which the latter admitted that, although he had given Mr. Fall checks for $100,000, they had been returned uncashed. So Mr. McLean was indubitably connected with the oil scandals...
Morris Gest, producer of The Miracle: "In a pamphlet, entitled An American Protestant Protest against the Defilement of True Art by Roman Catholicism, I was accused of being an emissary of the Pope, an 'alien Judas Iscariot tool for Jesuitical propaganda.' Said I: 'I am proud of being a Jew, but I resent bitterly being described as a Judas. The Miracle is a work of art and not a religious propaganda...
...alien Judas Iscariot tool for Jesuitical propaganda...
...which the foreign born population is largely concentrated. It also presents a problem to the Republican Party-the possibility of losing New York's electoral votes this year on account of the "foreign born vote." The Japanese Government has protested the provision of the new bill: "No alien ineligible to citizenship shall be admitted into the United States," which is practically aimed at the Japanese. Secretary Hughes last week in a letter to the Immigration Committee, pointed out that this contravened our treaty with Japan. He added: "The Japanese are a sensitive people and unquestionably would regard such...