Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merely amusing aspect of it is the use of some words alien to my normal vocabulary. It just happens that 'papa,' for example, is a word which my family recognizes as one I dislike and forbid them to use; and now, when they read in your book of my using this word for my own father, they laugh quite...
...Women are intensely partiotic, and it is hard because a woman is married to an alien that she has to give up that which is very dear to her. Woman has always been inconvenient, but she is an inconvenient necessity or she would never have been introduced into the Garden of Eden [laughter], and woman will become more inconvenient if the law of the land does not go in the way which thinking women want...
...quintet has an imposing record to match that of the Crimson. Only three teams have humbled the Bear so far, Yale, Wesleyan and B. U. Wagenknecht, brilliant forward on the Providence five, is particularly successful on his home floor, and the three Brown reverses have all been scored on alien courts. M. A. C., handily defeated by the Crimson earlier in the season, was defeated by one point on the Providence floor...
...sentimental manifestations there is none which is more alien to the American spirit than self-pity. This virile people hates whining...
...zeal for safe-guarding the rights of property, the American Legal Association surely intends to work for the restoration of alien property confiscated in wartime. In nineteen seventeen the state department asserted that it "would not take advantage of a state of war to take possession of property to which international understandings and the recognized law of the land can give it no just claim or title". Simultaneously, several million dollars' worth of property belonging to alien enemies was seized and has since remained in governmental hands...