Word: alien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Australia then issued an even stronger statement, which it sent not to London as did polite New Zealand, but direct to Dublin. It was the first major protest in history from one Dominion to another. Ominously Australia hinted that, should the Free State cut loose, Irishmen would become alien not only in Britain but in all the Dominions...
...signature President Hoover last week made law an immigration act excluding all alien instrumental musicians from the U. S. as "artists," unless they were of "distinguished merit and ability...
...alien race, no foreign shore...
...Bruce is at his funniest as a husband protesting his wife's jilting by his best friend. Theatregoers could be grateful that a slip-up by Actors' Equity permitted Actor Bruce to remain on the U. S. stage, in spite of the six months' interval between engagements required of alien actors...
...remembered the modernistic tendencies of his other works, his Jazz-Suite and Enchanted Isle, were surprised at the melodic simplicity of the Beanstalk score. Most of the music had the smooth, deft charm appropriate to a fairy tale. Only the giant had use for occasional striding dissonances, for an alien piano which characterized him with a noisy, thumping bass...