Word: pariah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actual severance would make Germany the diplomatic (and trading) pariah which Russia was between 1917 and 1933. To drive home the fact that the U. S. was not joking, Franklin Roosevelt unexpectedly-motored out to dine with Secretary Ickes and his attractive young wife at "Headwaters Farm" in Olney...
...True Confession's three leading players, John Barrymore as the half-maudlin, crazily cunning pariah has far the smallest part but handles it with a Hogarthian swagger which threatens to eclipse his colleagues. Accused of stealing the picture, he remarked gallantly, "Nobody ever steals a picture from Carole Lombard...
...secret history of the people in whose minds it took root..., may by any means turn away, in lofty literary scorn, from the almanac--most despised, most prolific, most indispensable of books, which every man uses, and no man praises; the very quack, clown, pack-horse, and pariah of modern literature, yet the one universal book of modern literature...
From Turkey last week, via the Frankfurter Zeitung, came news that 20,000 stray dogs had last year been cleared off the streets of Istanbul and killed. Travelers lately returned from Istanbul were amazed at the number, having thought that Istanbul's teeming population of pariah dogs was part of its dead past...
...school if he is not. In the course of his tirade it appears that because the school heads wink at the manly dissipations of a soldier, six of the boys have contracted syphilis. The commandant retorts that if the medical officer resigns and talks he will be a pariah unable to earn a living for his family. At the following commencement it falls to the medical officer to deliver the address awarding highest honors to Cadet Thornton...