Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hunkies in a copper mill. His is a hard-muscled method of thought. He refuses to betray himself by betraying humanity in order to remain loyal to an artificial class distinction. The, to many persons, pleasantly remote life of working people interests him like a bride. Feeling this alien devotion, the girl he loves says, "I don't love you because you've never allowed...
...Hoch! Hoch! Hoch!" roared the crowd, while only the royal colors of Bavaria (white & light blue) streamed in the breeze. Impressionable, warmhearted, those jolly South-Germans were on a veritable spree of local patriotism. Prussia, land of shaven polls and square jaws, seemed alien and dis-tant-the Enemy, with its feverish industrialism and its cold, northern Berlin. They were Bavarians, and before them stood their "Rightful King." Was he not even a Hero-King? Certainly he had been a Feldmarschall during the War, and commanded troops which struck fast and far into enemy territory. Suddenly, in a bright emotional...
...river, fit for nothing but the languid progress of punts, to show such interest and variety within a few short miles. He has no patience with those who would reduce the banks of the stream to the insipid beauty of a city park. It is a dirty stream, to alien eyes an unattractive stream, but it is peculiarly...
Freed last week, Mr. Remus pondered a pending U. S. Government suit to deport him as an undesirable alien. He is a native of Germany...
...another offense--for "radical" activities. The opening which they thus gave was "played up" by the prosecuting attorney and much of the trial was devoted to exploiting the radicalism of the defendants at a time when the public mind was in a state bordering on panic fear of alien revolutionaries. They were convicted, motions for a new trial were denied by the trial judge, and an appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court based on the denial of these motions and on errors of law alleged to have been committed at the trial, was dismissed...