Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Joaquin Valley. He used to sit in silence by the hour with his heartbroken little friend, a "poor and burning Arab." When the Arab died Khosrove "stood in the parlor with his hat on his head and said, The Arab is dead. He died an orphan in an alien world, six thousand miles from home. He wanted to go home and die. He wanted to see his sons again. He wanted to talk to them again. He wanted to smell them. He wanted to hear them breathing. He had no money. He used to think about them all the time...
Then, having rescued Miss Wagner from Switzerland, the British arrested her last summer. In her luggage police found photographs of her and Hitler together and that clinched it. She was interned as an enemy alien. To her defense last week went eloquent Beverley Baxter...
...earn his million, Dies produced a bigger show than ever. From Los Angeles to Chicago his agents brought Heinrich Peter Fassbender, alias Harry Smith, 23, a dark, smiling youth who claimed to have worked as a Gestapo agent for five years in Belgium, Spain and the U. S. Young Alien Fassbender, said Dies, was "sensational" in secret hearings...
...that I should one day attempt to record the history of this old serving-woman who could only barely read and write." Like the Grimms and W. H. Hudson, Werfel suggests the far away and long ago: "Yet now I am sitting here, at a strange table in an alien land, painfully evoking the memory of a world that has been submerged into the past. . . ." Like Scheherazade and O. Henry, Werfel is not afraid to use language decoratively: ". . . The morning came on swift feet and looked down upon us with astonished eyes!" Nor to ornament his narrative with observations...
CHICAGO--A 23-year-old alien, until recently an agent of the German Gestapo, appeared before a secret hearing of the House Committee on Un-American Activities tonight with photographs of United States industrial plants and admitted he had engaged in espionage in this country, Rep. Martin Dies, D. Tex., announced...