Word: alien
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Young Birds and Parental Care", Professor Alien, Zoology Laboratory...
...Yankee Pitcher Waite Hoyt having been augmented, Mr. Hoyt has hibernated with profit into vaudeville. He has a fair baritone voice and his father, Ad Hoyt, used to be a minstrel player; so he was not labeled "a freak" (i.e., one who capitalizes on his fame in an alien line...
...doubt by the exhilirating sight of a usually sedate Yard swarming with uniforms, that last Saturday delivered a mortal blow to the resolution formed by the Vagabond after last year's Yale game not to let himself be lured from the narrow path of duty by anything so alien to his proper sphere of interest as a football game. At the first sign or the coming of the Hanoverian horde nothing could save it, and last night its remains were buried by its sorrowing owner in the bottommost cellar of Widener...
...Shoals (see Republicans). He extricated himself from the position on immigration into which he felt Nominee Hoover had tried to place him. He said: "In Tennessee, the Republican candidate said, 'I do not favor an increase immigration.' Why does he say that? . . . I do not favor any letdown [of alien restrictions] at all. ... It smacks a little too much of the old-time legal practice that they used to tell about, when the lawyer wanted to get the witness in bad by saying: 'When did you stop beating 'your wife...
...then the day arrives when the Army team appears upon the field against an alien foe. Another adversary seeks to trample the Black and Grey and Gold in the dust of defeat. It may be a worthy foe whose prowess threatens to send the Cadets back to the Highlands of the Hudson sadder and wiser men. But be the threat great or small it has always been the pride of Navy men that when their brothers in khaki sally forth to battle they will find their blue-clad shipmates behind them to a man, glorying in their victories and suffering...