Word: alien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four Harvard students arrested were held on a violation of a perfectly lawful ordinance, paid their fines, and were lawfully released. The Liberal Club, on the other hand, for some strange reason still feels that William Randolph Hearst and his newspapers are exerting dangerous, un-American, and insidiously alien influences upon an American press...
Childe Hassam, to whom went the Saltus Medal of Merit, only N. A. prize to be awarded regardless of nationality, age, sex, or subject matter, for that old post-impressionist's landscape Evening, Point Alien...
...Lehman Hall were the parking rate halved. In that event the lot would be filled; the economics department would no longer run the danger of embarrassment; the impecunious would be aided; and we could finish our trip to the Yard undisturbed so early in the morning by thoughts so alien to scholarly research as false economics, social justice, and human stupidity...
...Whitmanesque poetry. In form it is variously a narrative, an epic, a diatribe, a chronicle, a psalm, but in essence it is a U. S. voice. Author Wolfe's whole theme: "Why is it we have crossed the stormy seas so many times alone, lain in a thousand alien rooms at night hearing the sounds of time, dark time, and thought until heart, brain, flesh and spirit were sick and weary with the thought of it; 'Where shall I go now? What shall I do?'. . . We are so lost, so lonely, so forsaken in America: immense...
...this A. E. F. major joined the Legion's lobby. That lobby was then headed by 1 ) Colonel Luke Lea who presently returned to Tennessee and ultimately went to jail in North Carolina, and 2 ) Major Taylor's law partner, Thomas Miller, who subsequently became Alien Property Custodian and served a term in the Atlanta Penitentiary for conspiring to defraud the U. S. Government. Major Taylor took up where they left off. He fumigated the lobby to get rid of unsavory odors left by his predecessors and buckled down to business in a way they had never dreamed...