Word: alien
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether America will take this alien creed to her bosom is a moot query. That Archipenko will arouse violent opinion on both sides is patent. A hint of what he may expect at the hands of orthodoxy was contained in a review by Lucia Fairchild Fuller, A. N. A. (painter), when Archipenko's cubistic statue of a soldier was shown in Manhattan in 1921: "The thing is worthless. Only a fundamental degeneration could have produced it, and it is an ominous sign when any sane human being finds it of interest...
...State where the fiery cross brazenly burned from the tops of courthouses, will defeat the members of the Invisible Empire that "gave its orders to sheriffs, prosecuting attorneys, jurors, and judges, ordered citizens flogged, threatened others, and instituted a business boycott against what they call the alien world...
Sanderson was educated at Durham and Cambridge, lectured at various colleges until 1892, when he went to Oundle, then a small country grammar school. He was an authority on hydrostatics and electricity, but nothing human was alien to his interests...
...Garvan is a New York lawyer who came into national prominence through his administration of the office of Alien Property Custodian during and after the War. He was also Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. In 1919 he became President of the Chemical Foundation, organized by himself, Attorney General Palmer, and others, to take over a number of German dye and chemical patents seized by his office during the War. On account of this direct interest, the Foundation has been the target of much litigation from the companies whose property was confiscated, but it has not been dissolved...
...strengthened his position until he became a veritable institution of the city, fêted and acclaimed. The War came. Operatic things ceased to flourish, but Piccaver kept his place in popular and aristocratic favor. The U. S. declared war upon Germany; then upon Austria. And still Piccaver, an enemy alien, retained his prestige and vogue. During the after-War period he reigned a veritable King of Opera...