Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every step to root [Communists] out of our union completely." Then the delegates upheld the expulsion of five of the N.M.U.'s noisiest left-wing troublemakers. Among them: ex-Vice President Joe Stack and onetime National Secretary Ferdinand Smith, whom the U.S. is trying to deport as an alien...
...second short opus. "Alien Corn" would like to be a bit of tragedy. A young man, frustrated in his sole ambition of becoming a concert pianist, takes his life. Here one of Mr. Maugham's vices creeps in. Lack of depth of emotion allows this piece to deteriorate to the level of a tabloid suicide at the end, though the whole thing is done with rich piano accompaniment, to be sure...
Since the war, although his works have been performed as widely as ever, Allied alien-property custodians have held most of the profits (estimated, in British and U.S. royalties alone, at more than $460,000). Two years ago, pink and erect, Richard Strauss journeyed to London to earn some money conducting (he never had to yield to any man as a Mozart conductor). In London he told inquiring friends: "The last time I conduct." What were his plans? Said Strauss...
...prevented by twists of the plot from getting to bed with his bride (Ann Sheridan). Here the situation is rigged on a fresh but frail device that crumbles under ponderous handling. To join his WAG Lieut. Sheridan, whose outfit is leaving Germany, Frenchman Grant must be deployed as an "alien spouse" through the U.S. Army's channels for delivering European brides to their G.I. husbands...
...last week the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick flew to the alien East for a brief look at his new outpost, the Washington Times-Herald (circ. 278,000), and a visit with some old friends. Over mint juleps and charcoal-broiled beefsteaks at a party given by Nevada's Senator George Malone, Colonel McCormick casually dropped a nugget of news...