Word: alien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next two checks came from Britain and Japan. Norman Davis' blunt definition of an aggressor-one whose armed forces are found on alien soil-was amplified to include a country that had taken any one of the following steps...
Rhodes's Results. Some Oxford men have long regarded Rhodesmen as disagreeable blighters, scarcely fit even for one another's depressing company. Gentler observers reflect that Oxford does not represent all of England. Its young men are mostly of the gentry. And British gentry are alien to youths from big U. S. cities, not to mention those of the U. S. hinterland whence most Rhodes Scholars come. Cecil Rhodes's will provided that Scholars be chosen two from a State, which has sometimes resulted in thinly populated States sending up indifferent candidates. In 1929 Parliament was persuaded...
...resuming Whitman's celebration of the American nation. To this task he brought an exceptionally large and varied poetic vocabulary, and it fecundity in metaphor with appears unique in contemporary poetry. Poems like "Lachrymae Christi," "Belle Isle, " and-the lyrical portions of "The Bridge," have surface brightness of texture alien to most modern poetry. It is possible that Crane, as almost any poet is tempted to do today, wrote with too much consciousness of a theory, but he produced a group of lyrics which have been ranked with the greatest in our literature...
...long run we may come to the conclusion that the simplest and most accurate definition of an aggressor is one whose armed forces are found on alien soil in violation of treaties...
...minor poets, as the present has been called, Walter de la Mare does not seem an alien. Whether or not some of his more famed contemporaries are first-rank poets or not, even his friends have never put him in a false position of greatness. His most popular books have been rhymes for children and fairytales; his best poetry has been both gossamer and ghostly. In this collection, his first book of verse in six years, readers will not find such little masterpieces of suggestion as "The Listeners" or "The Suicide." Poet de la Mare...