Word: alien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is nothing novel in Russian importation of alien architects: a nation without indigenous architecture, most of its monuments in the past have been successively the work of Byzantines, Italians, Frenchmen imported wholesale by such ambitious rulers as Peter I and Catherine the Great. But presently, in Russia, Moritz Kahn with 25 U. S. assistants will organize a Soviet designing bureau of some 4,500 architects and engineers. This bureau will be directed by B. E. Barsky, President of the Soviet Building Commission...
Toby McLean is a sports writer for a Manhattan daily. He is clever, well-liked, good-looking, but he has "the disease of tomorrow." So popular is he with his fellow-craftsmen that once when he is lying hors de combat in a Turkish bath in some alien city, his editor receives no less than four accounts of a single baseball game, all signed with Toby's name. When he is covering the Dempsey-Tunney fight in Philadelphia he meets Ann Vaughn, newspaperwoman; they fall in love and get married in short order...