Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the first alien Bowen muscled his way with Cromwell into County Cork, ten generations of Bowen gentry have had a mania for land. For without land the Protestant Anglo-Irish gentry had nothing. In Catholic Ireland, they were spiritual aliens, "people of the ruins...
...dull, sometimes theatrical, often derivative. Said the New York Times's Olin Downes: "This symphony is far from a work of sustained greatness, either of ideas, workmanship or taste," but "that it has its great moments is unarguable." Said Henry Simon of PM (to which nothing Russian is alien): "a monumental achievement, which must earn for itself a prominent place in symphonic literature." Possibly the Sun's Oscar Thompson best expressed the general reaction. Said he: "If it is not a masterpiece to go thundering down the ages, it does thunder-and for a particular time...
...fighting front," marched dutifully into the fields. With them went their children and their grandparents. From France came trainloads of workmen urged on by Pierre Laval who last week offered to trade tens of thousands of workmen for 5,000 interned French soldiers. To keep 2,500,000 alien laborers from grumbling, the Germans put out special language newspapers...
...story of The Unvanquished is the story of Washington's growth in clarity and unity during the critical fortnight when his shattered forces ("an alien army in an alien land") retreated across New Jersey. "On the bleak road he now traveled a fortitude was required that could draw no sustenance from the past. . . . All that mattered now was to exist...
Arthur Garfield Hays's first important run-in with the law was almost his last. In 1917, while Hays was busy being a Red Cross collection agent in the West, his partners, who were then lawyers for the New York Evening Mail, submitted a report to the Alien Property Custodian showing an investment of $100,000 in the Mail by one Sielcken, an enemy alien. The Government claimed that the Mail was receiving German gold. Kaufmann and Lindheim were sentenced to a year in jail, and disbarred. Hays, however, came through unscratched...