Word: alien
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like all of Author Wylie's works, Mr. Hodge and Mr. Hazard exists entirely for its manner. Author Wylie is, it is true, writing again a history of the old battle waged by their alien companions upon those who are ill at ease in the world, sensitive, frightened and aloof. But what ever Author Wylie says, she says with flowers ; and often, the narrow white card, when it is finally discovered in the scented and elaborate bouquet of metaphors, has nothing written...
...Many a bill received President Coolidge's signature during the week-including the Alien Property Bill and the measures to allow Col. Lindbergh to receive foreign decorations, and to authorize the Postmaster-General in letting contracts for air mail to foreign countries...
...other large piece of legislation passed by both houses was the Alien Property Bill, to return or pay for seizures made eleven years ago. This measure carried riders increasing various clerical salaries, which irked President Coolidge, but not seriously enough to invite a veto. It was signed last week...
...legs in trousers instead of flapping, treacherous skirts. She reached U. S. soil. Last week she was arrested with four other young women who had crossed from Canada in rowboats the night after her bridge-walk. All were held as witnesses against a band of five alien smugglers. Commented the New York World: "Perhaps, then, in wattle huts and thatched roofs, in crowded slums and picturesque villages of the old familiar parts of the world, they still think of this [U. S.] as the promised land. Hearing their stories, we can hardly do less than strive to make it that...
...that when he got through coaching the 1927 football team he wanted to retire. Yale men asked him to reconsider; Jones did not change his mind. Last week his resignation took effect. Faced with the problem of chosing a new coach the Yale Athletic Board turned naturally to Marvin Alien Stevens, a handsome young man who came to Yale in 1922 from Osborne, Kan., played halfback on Mallory's eleven, proved himself a brilliant open field runner, an accurate place kicker, a good punter, and who for the last three years has coached the backfield and studied...