Word: alienating
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...characters, it created a modest stir. It will-rouse little interest now. The play itself, stuffed with straw. by this time is also covered with dust. Perhaps it would still make a show piece for a pair of enormously skillful actors; but Eugenie Leontovich, with her fussy tricks and alien corn, and Basil Rathbone, with his striding and reciting, leave the play as arid as they find...
...stage is only embryonic. But only through such trials as these can the social system be changed and reconciled with the concepts of Western justice. Hundreds of lives may be lost in the struggle of flux. The sacrifice is unfortunate, but necessary. To deal with racial questions through alien agencies like Federal courts, as suggested by Sheean, would remove the very problems the South must solve in its self-education. Permanent change must come from within; the group must change itself.. Here is a beginning...
When Crowley later became Alien Property Custodian, he in turn appointed V.E. to the board of two of the richest plums in his hands, General Aniline & Dye Corp. and General Dyestuff Corp. Similarly, V.E. met George Allen ten-odd years ago, when the President's jester was just a man around Washington. Says V.E.: "He was a very amusing fellow and I took a liking...
...what they like, but the fact remains that the [U.S.-owned] telephone network is now Argentine property, and the same is true of the railways." By the end of his six-year term, he boasted, "not an inch of soil, not a breath of air" in Argentina would be alien-owned. And in fact little more than the packing houses and a few power plants still remained in foreign hands...
...should say not! I've got enough troubles to watch out here!" As if to underline his point, in his Tribune last week he reminded his vast Midwest audience-at 1,075,000 it is second only to the News's-that he still regards the alien East as wicked and full of European influences...